We have a list of beautiful baby girl names that are unique and special. Looking for more baby girl name inspiration? Check out our list of top Irish girl names, Indian/Hindu girl names, Hispanic girl names and long girl names, along with baby boy names and unisex names for good measure.Want to choose a beautiful girl name that's just as lovely and rare as your baby girl?

These are all the four-letter girl names that made the SSA list - and, as you can see, there's plenty to choose from (listed in order of popularity).

Getty Images Short, Four-Letter Girls' Namesįor many, four letters is the sweet spot: not too short, not too long. (There are two on the list of most popular boys' names if you want to snatch them for your baby girl: Bo and Ty.) Instead, two-letter girl names are most often shortened forms of longer names, like Di, El, Em, Jo, Lu, Mo, Ro, Vi or Yo. While there are two-letter girls' names out there - like Io of Greek mythology, who gives her name to a moon of Jupiter - none have made it on to the SSA's list of the most popular baby names. If you're looking for a quick moniker, we scoured the SSA list of the most popular baby names to find the hottest short baby girl names around, and also offer some suggestions for some up-and coming ones. But if you look at the data from the Social Security Administration (SSA), which keeps track of baby names, you can see that the top five names each year have been getting shorter since the '90s.Īnd why not? Short names are easy to remember, easy to spell and roll off the tongue.

Of course, you can always find counter-examples, like Charlotte and Isabella, two stunning, long girl names that have managed to stay in the top 10. According to Quartz, a popular news organization, the era of long, flowing girl names like Jessica, Brittany, Amanda, Samantha and Ashley has given way to punchier, shorter names like Cora, Luna, Ava and Mia. Some years, a pop-culture event inspires a new wave of baby names - we see you, all the Bridgerton babies out there - other years veer toward the traditional, timeless names.īelieve it or not, the length of a baby name changes with the current baby-name trends, too. Sometimes, old-fashioned names are in, sometimes the new and modern takes over. When it comes to picking a baby girl name, everything comes in cycles.

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