180 Short Girl Names That Are Simple and Sweet

When it comes to choosing a girl name, everything comes in cycles. Sometimes old-fashioned names are in, sometimes the new and modern take over. Some years, a pop culture event inspires a new wave of baby names — we’re looking at you, everyone Bridgerton babies out there – other years go towards the traditional, timeless names.

Believe it or not, the length of a baby name also changes with the current baby name trends. According to Quartza 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.

Of course, you can always find counterexamples, such as Charlotte and Isabellatwo great, long girl names that have managed to stay in the top 10. 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 have gotten shorter every year since the 1990s the number.

And why not? Short names are easy to remember, easy to spell and roll off the tongue. If you’re looking for a quick name, we’ve scoured the SSA list of most popular baby names to find the hottest short girl names and also offer some suggestions for some upcoming names.

Short girl names with two letters

While there are two letter girl names out there – sort of Io from Greek mythology, which gives its name to a moon of Jupiter – none have made the SSA’s list of most popular baby names. (There are two on the list of the most popular boy names if you want to take them to your girl: Stay and Thanks.) Instead, two-letter girl names are usually shortened forms of longer names, such as You, El, Em, Yes, Lu, Mo, Rest, We or Yo.

Short girl names with three letters

There aren’t as many three-letter girl names on the SSA list as there are four-letter girl names, so there’s still something unique about them. If three is your magic number, try one of these names, listed in order from most popular to least popular.

1. Ava
2. Mia
3. Zoe
4. Ivy
5. Eve
6. Ada
7. Amy
8. My a
9. Gia
10. Lia
11. No a
12. Joy
13. Ari
14. Eve
15. Mae
16. Nine
17. Life
18. Sky
19. Leah
20. Ila
21. Kai
22. Bria
23. Come on

And while these didn’t make the SSA’s list of the 1,000 most popular names, these are some to consider if you want something that’s still under the radar (listed in alphabetical order).

1. Ann
2. Bea
3. Point
4. Faye
5. GEM
6. Ida
7. Is one
8. January
9. Kay
10. Equipment
11. Leeward
12. Lou
13. Lux
14. Max
15. Nev
16. Nyx
17. Pia
18. Beep
19. Beam
20. Clean
21. Undo
22. Sam
23. Prophesy
24. Una
25. Choice
26. Wynn
27. Zia

Short girl names with four letters

For many, four letters is the sweet spot: not too short, not too long. These are all the four-letter girl names that made the SSA list — and as you can see, there’s a lot to choose from (listed in order of popularity).

1. Emma
2. Luna
3. Ella
4. ARIA
5. Mila
6. Nora
7. Lily
8. Nova
9. Isla
10. Zoey
11. Leah
12. Lucy
13. Maya
14. Ruby
15. Anna
16. Cora
17. Jade
18. Iris
19. Ayla
20. Lyla
21. Rose
22. Arya
23. The oath
24. Draw
25. Mary
26. June
27. Sage
28. Ruth
29. Sara
30. Zuri
31. Zara
32. Purple
33. Nyla
34. Vera
35. Hope
36. Kaya
37. Myla
38. Ana
39. Wren
40. Lola
41. Jane
42. Potassium
43. Lena
44. Evie
45. Leia
46. Thea
47. Nina
48. Cali
49. Ella
50. Demi
51. Lana
52. Esme
53. Kira
54. Rory
55. Kate
56. Lexi
57. Skye
58. Maya
59. Marine
60. Mira
61. Lyre
62. Raya
63. Ryan
64. Cold
65. Cora
66. Maci
67. Alma
68. Anya
69. Mara
70. Dior
71. Opal
72. Remy
73. Abby
74. Erin
75. Anne
76. Mine
77. Ant
78. Alia
79. Nola
80. Faye
81. Rhea
82. Macy’s
83. Yara
84. Pink
85. Kyra
86. Naya
87. line
88. Corey
89. Lara
90. Sure
91. Noah
92. Ezra
93. Dani
94. Halo
95. Nala
96. Aila
97. Kara
98. Cleo
99. Iyla
100. Hannah
101. And I
102. Drawn
103. Zora
104. Aww
105. Kidney
106. Gwen
107. Noor
108. Wade
109. Vedas
110. Elijah
111. Shay
112. One
113. Elsa
114. Zoya
115. Zoe
116. Zola
117. Far
118. Tori

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