Once again, the most popular length for U.S. baby names was six letters.
Here’s a the length breakdown for girl names in 2017:
And here are the most-used girl names per length:
- 2 letters: Jo and Zo, tie
- 3 letters: Ava
- 4 letters: Emma
- 5 letters: Emily
- 6 letters: Olivia
- 7 letters: Abigail
- 8 letters: Isabella
- 9 letters: Charlotte
- 10 letters: Alexandria
- 11 letters: Christianna
- 12 letters: Scarlettrose
- 13 letters: Oluwadarasimi
- 14 letters: Oluwafunmilayo
- 15 letters: n/a
Here’s the breakdown for boy names:
And here are the most-used boy names per length for 2017:
- 2 letters: Ty
- 3 letters: Eli
- 4 letters: Liam
- 5 letters: James
- 6 letters: Elijah
- 7 letters: William
- 8 letters: Benjamin
- 9 letters: Alexander
- 10 letters: Maximilian
- 11 letters: Christopher
- 12 letters: Michelangelo
- 13 letters: Oluwatobiloba
- 14 letters: Oluwatimilehin
- 15 letters: Christopherjame
Finally, here are both genders on the same chart:
The results in 2016 were very similar.
I take it from Christopherjame that the SSA cuts off any names longer than 15 letters?
I was also wondering about Christopherjame. Assuming it is indeed the SSA lopping off the S of the James portion just for the name lists, are these babies actually named Christopherjames or are they Christopher-James?
I do think it’s interesting that both Christopher and James are the most popular for their name length. Christopher most likely had pretty limited competition at 11 letters, but at 5 letters James had a lot of trendy names to compete with (Miles, Ethan, Henry…) .
I think it’s safe to assume that “Christopherjame” represents Christopher James and/or ChristopherJames, Christopher-James, etc. The SSA would count all these renderings the same way, including the lopping off that final “s” due to the 15-letter cut-off.