Short-name Baby Names
13 Short-name names with meanings, U.S. popularity, and audio pronunciation on every page.
Explore 13 baby names with a short-name feel. Every name links to a full page with its sourced meaning, origin, popularity chart, famous bearers, and a clear audio pronunciation. Names are listed most-popular first.
Short-name Girl Names
Eria#10766 in the U.S.Eria is a short, gentle early twentieth-century name whose origin is uncertain. It may be a var▶Krissa#11368 in the U.S.Krissa is a short feminine in the Krista and Christa family, all rooted in Christ. Christa is a▶Kela#12330 in the U.S.Kela is a brief feminine name that reads as a clip of Michaela or Kayla, keeping their -ela/-la▶Shell#12517 in the U.S.Shell is used as a girl's name either as the plain English word shell, the hard covering of a s▶Meeya#15024 in the U.S.Meeya is a sound-it-out respelling of Mia or Miya. Mia is read across cultures as a short form ▶Gwenn#16162 in the U.S.Gwenn is a spelling of Gwen, itself a short form of longer Welsh names such as Gwendolyn and Gw▶Jezel#17014 in the U.S.Jezel is a modern short name that echoes both Jezebel, the Biblical queen whose name is often r▶Sha#17250 in the U.S.Sha is a minimal one-syllable name, most plausibly clipped from the front of Sha- names like Sh▶Terah#17892 in the U.S.Terah as a modern girl's name sits close to Tara and Terra, evoking 'earth' and a soft two-beat▶
Short-name Boy Names
Verle#5744 in the U.S.Verle is a spare early-1900s American boys' name, a cousin of Verl and part of the rhyming set ▶Kem#10824 in the U.S.Kem is a brief name with more than one path: it serves as a short form of the Turkish Kemal ('p▶Geoff#11183 in the U.S.Geoff is the British short form of Geoffrey, a medieval name of Germanic roots whose second ele▶Graig#11203 in the U.S.Graig is a variant spelling of Craig, from the Scottish Gaelic creag, meaning a crag or rocky o▶
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Popular Short-name baby names include Verle, Eria, Kem, Geoff, Graig, Krissa. Each page has the meaning, popularity, and an audio pronunciation.
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