Short Girl Names
A short written name can still offer many different sounds and histories. Every spelling in this collection has four letters or fewer, with its own U.S. popularity data and a note about the written shape.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 2,521#107 | Down 39 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 1,200#257 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1975 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 225#1,076 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 5,831#29 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 7,732#11 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 472#619 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 1959 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 2,154#134 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 689#449 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 1,276#245 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 1,401#219 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 281#930 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 577#519 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 821#375 | Up 282 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 668#461 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 154#1,414 | Down 208 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 22#5,566 | Down 1,951 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
A compact 3-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 29#4,667 | Down 1,380 rank positions in five years | 1975 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 177#1,261 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 329#827 | Up 73 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 35#4,074 | Down 1,052 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 15#7,142 | Up 75 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 9#10,314 | Up 3,578 rank positions in five years | 1930 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | 23#5,416 | Down 1,500 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
A compact 4-letter choice with a vowel opening. | —Unranked | — | 1916 |
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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.