Short German Girl 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. | 58#2,909 | Down 529 rank positions in five years | 1928 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,154#134 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 595#499 | Down 27 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 246#1,016 | Up 231 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 41#3,704 | Up 133 rank positions in five years | 1925 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1915. | 340#803 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 362#751 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1906. | 37#3,965 | Down 1,628 rank positions in five years | 1968 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1907. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 527#572 | Up 118 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1881. | 161#1,372 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1916 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1892. | 135#1,565 | Down 675 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1880. | 9#10,222 | Up 1,032 rank positions in five years | 1926 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1884. | 112#1,804 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1888. | 10#9,850 | Up 939 rank positions in five years | 1966 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1962. | 35#4,074 | Down 1,052 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1887. | —Unranked | — | 1915 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1924. | —Unranked | — | 1967 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1884. | —Unranked | — | 1932 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1916. | 12#8,552 | Up 613 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1920. | 9#10,563 | Up 5,982 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1957. | —Unranked | — | 1957 | ||
Recorded in German; in U.S. records from 1969. | —Unranked | — | 1969 |
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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.