Short Italian Girl Names
Italian names offer distinctive local forms as well as names shared around the Mediterranean. 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 Italian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 805#379 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1964 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 3,547#65 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,568#198 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 174#1,287 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 1949 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1890. | 223#1,083 | Down 59 rank positions in five years | 1962 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 247#1,015 | Up 104 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1880. | 674#458 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1911. | 531#565 | Down 97 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1950. | 178#1,260 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1915. | 509#583 | Up 187 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1888. | 132#1,589 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Italian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1915. | 313#866 | Down 282 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1919. | —Unranked | — | 1960 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1925. | 18#6,400 | Down 243 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1958. | —Unranked | — | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1940. | 11#9,035 | Up 1,490 rank positions in five years | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1920. | 12#8,375 | Down 1,743 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1882. | —Unranked | — | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1920. | —Unranked | — | 1965 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1993. | —Unranked | — | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 2001. | —Unranked | — | 2011 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 1999 | ||
Recorded in Italian; in U.S. records from 1954. | —Unranked | — | 1968 | ||
Italian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1914. | —Unranked | — | 1925 |
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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.