Short German Boy Names
German names include inherited Germanic names and German forms of international classics. Every spelling here has five letters or fewer, making the written length easy to compare. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,316#262 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,954#187 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 187#1,134 | Down 321 rank positions in five years | 1956 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 211#1,048 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 4,140#79 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 155#1,269 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 1917 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 132#1,389 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 1915 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1883. | 83#1,897 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1976. | 48#2,693 | Down 776 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1893. | 73#2,038 | Up 431 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1916. | 93#1,750 | Down 471 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1884. | 18#5,296 | Down 964 rank positions in five years | 1966 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1917 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1912. | 83#1,902 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1961. | 23#4,488 | Down 389 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1884. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1964. | 25#4,147 | Up 2,505 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1931. | 8#9,537 | Up 2,202 rank positions in five years | 1978 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1963 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1920. | —Unranked | — | 1963 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1923 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1915. | —Unranked | — | 1930 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1913. | —Unranked | — | 1927 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1934. | —Unranked | — | 1967 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.