Short Spanish Girl Names

Spanish-language naming spans many countries, with both shared classics and local preferences. 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 nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

805#379
Down 23 rank positions in five years
1964

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

2,172#131
Down 23 rank positions in five years
2001

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

1,568#198
Down 15 rank positions in five years
1981

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

3,601#63
Up 40 rank positions in five years
1918

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

318#855
Down 31 rank positions in five years
1963

Recorded in Spanish as Sofía; in U.S. records from 1881.

8,252#9
Up 8 rank positions in five years
2015

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

689#449
Up 111 rank positions in five years
1918

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1890.

223#1,083
Down 59 rank positions in five years
1962

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

1,276#245
Down 1 rank positions in five years
1991

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

1,132#275
Down 38 rank positions in five years
1919

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

674#458
Up 53 rank positions in five years
2012

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1972.

1,723#180
Down 41 rank positions in five years
2018

Recorded in Spanish as Anahí; in U.S. records from 1976.

623#482
Up 147 rank positions in five years
2006

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1913.

493#594
Down 4 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1888.

92#2,056
Up 515 rank positions in five years
1957

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1882.

294#903
Up 94 rank positions in five years
2022

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1880.

201#1,151
Up 14 rank positions in five years
2015

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1944.

413#686
Up 97 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Spanish as Aída; in U.S. records from 1881.

154#1,414
Down 208 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Spanish as Belén; in U.S. records from 1909.

345#785
Up 96 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1888.

132#1,589
Up 59 rank positions in five years
2008

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1918.

278#937
Up 111 rank positions in five years
1999

Recorded in Spanish as Inés; in U.S. records from 1883.

213#1,111
Up 662 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Spanish; in U.S. records from 1914.

81#2,257
Down 1,001 rank positions in five years
2020

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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.

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