Which lengths were the most and least popular for U.S. baby names in 2021?
Top length for girl names: 6 letters
For baby girls, the most-used length was 6 letters, followed by 5 and 7.
The most popular girl names per length were…
- 2 letters (over 200 baby girls): Bo, Jo, Zo, An, Vy, Io
- 3 letters (over 58,300): Ava, Mia, Zoe, Ivy, Eva, Ada
- 4 letters (over 223,800): Emma, Luna, Ella, Aria, Mila, Nora
- 5 letters (over 348,000): Sofia, Avery, Emily, Chloe, Layla, Hazel
- 6 letters (over 466,100): Olivia, Amelia, Sophia, Evelyn, Harper, Camila
- 7 letters (over 307,900): Eleanor, Abigail, Madison, Addison, Lillian, Paisley
- 8 letters (over 142,000): Isabella, Scarlett, Penelope, Victoria, Brooklyn, Savannah
- 9 letters (over 71,800): Charlotte, Elizabeth, Valentina, Josephine, Gabriella
- 10 letters (over 8,000): Evangeline, Alexandria, Alessandra, Jacqueline
- 11 letters (over 300): Christianna, Ameliagrace, Anavictoria
- 12 letters (under 100)
- 13 letters (over 100)
- 14 letters (under 100)
- 15 letters (none)
Top length for boy names: 6 letters
For baby boys, the most-used length was also 6 letters, followed by 5 and 4.
The most popular boy names per length were…
- 2 letters (over 1,800 baby boys): Bo, Ty, Om, Aj, Cy, Oz
- 3 letters (over 49,200): Leo, Eli, Kai, Ian, Ace, Max
- 4 letters (over 288,800): Liam, Noah, Jack, Levi, Owen, John
- 5 letters (over 453,200): James, Lucas, Henry, Mateo, Mason, Ethan
- 6 letters (over 511,800): Oliver, Elijah, Daniel, Samuel, Joseph, Julian
- 7 letters (over 269,000): William, Jackson, Michael, Grayson, Matthew, Gabriel
- 8 letters (over 106,100): Benjamin, Theodore, Maverick, Santiago, Jonathan, Jeremiah
- 9 letters (over 42,000): Alexander, Sebastian, Christian, Nathaniel, Alejandro
- 10 letters (over 3,700): Maximilian, Alessandro, Kristopher, Montgomery
- 11 letters (over 7,800): Christopher, Maximiliano, Constantine
- 12 letters (over 200)
- 13 letters (over 100)
- 14 letters (under 100)
- 15 letters (under 100)
You seem to have a mistake – according to the graph 4-letter names are (slightly) more popular for boys than 7-letter names (you said 6 was the most common, followed by 5 and then 7).
Thank you — just fixed it. And I created new graphs to make that ordering more apparent.