Short Swedish Girl Names
Swedish names range from northern classics to forms shared with the rest of Europe. 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 Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 2,236#123 | Up 110 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,601#196 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1880. | 156#1,400 | Up 656 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1885. | 4,657#46 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1949. | 1,033#297 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1896. | 355#764 | Up 217 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1939. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1942. | 66#2,643 | Down 206 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1895. | 39#3,792 | Down 552 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1896. | 8#11,834 | Down 2,351 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1971. | 7#12,771 | Down 2,734 rank positions in five years | 1982 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1992. | 21#5,884 | Down 1,252 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1955. | 23#5,432 | Up 2,184 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2006. | 117#1,738 | Up 2,301 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1882. | —Unranked | — | 1914 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1955. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Swedish-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1965. | —Unranked | — | 1973 | ||
Swedish-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1958. | 6#14,577 | Down 1,381 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1996. | 17#6,783 | Up 1,545 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1910. | 6#13,703 | new | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1924. | —Unranked | — | 1930 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 1924. | —Unranked | — | 1970 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2022. | —Unranked | — | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Swedish; in U.S. records from 2016. | —Unranked | — | 2016 |
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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.