Short Portuguese Girl Names
European and Brazilian Portuguese share many names, with some differences in spelling and everyday use. 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 Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,568#198 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,277#244 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,154#134 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1881. | 8,252#9 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1961. | 2,630#98 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Lígia; in U.S. records from 1918. | —Unranked | — | 1985 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1921. | —Unranked | — | 1942 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1928. | —Unranked | — | 1972 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Taís; in U.S. records from 1991. | —Unranked | — | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Cátia; in U.S. records from 1975. | —Unranked | — | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Wânia; in U.S. records from 2004. | 6#14,825 | Down 9,169 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2002. | 7#12,393 | new | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Taísa; in U.S. records from 1968. | —Unranked | — | 1985 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Eloá; in U.S. records from 2019. | 20#5,973 | Up 4,540 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2009. | 16#6,888 | Up 1,151 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Fê; in U.S. records from 1960. | —Unranked | — | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1968. | 15#7,216 | new | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1916. | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1917. | —Unranked | — | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Laís; in U.S. records from 2014. | 5#16,236 | Up 218 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1991. | —Unranked | — | 1994 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1991. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1935. | —Unranked | — | 1935 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1988. | —Unranked | — | 1988 |
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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.