Short & Sweet Baby Names
41 short & sweet baby names. Median rank #86 in Canada for 2024, up 19 places since 2020.
Each line is the median rank of the names in this collection that appear on that place’s list in every complete year shown, inside the top 1,000.
Girls 31 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mia | Mine; short for Maria | #7 ↑1 | #21 ↓16 | #5 ↑3 |
| Ava | Life; form of Eve | #10 ↓3 | #11 ↓7 | #9 ↓6 |
| Ivy | Ivy plant; fidelity | #33 ↑4 | #9 ↓3 | #36 ↑22 |
| Nora | Honor; short for Eleanor/Honora | #14 ↑15 | #75 new | #22 ↑8 |
| Ellie | Shining one; short for Eleanor/Elizabeth | #18 ↑4 | — | #21 ↑8 |
| Zoe | Life | #21 ↓9 | — | #29 ↑11 |
| Ella | Fairy maiden; short for Eleanor-type names | #26 ↓7 | #46 ↓30 | #30 ↓15 |
| Charlie | Free man (diminutive of Charles) | #30 ↓12 | — | #140 ↓18 |
| Millie | Work, industrious (diminutive of Amelia) | #83 ↑127 | #36 ↓3 | #86 ↑104 |
| Sadie | Princess (diminutive of Sarah) | #70 ↑8 | — | #57 ↑21 |
| Zoey | Life | #65 ↓30 | — | #59 ↓27 |
| Lyla | Night | #113 ↑12 | #61 ↑36 | #83 ↑35 |
| Livia | Short form of Olivia | #66 ↓18 | — | #836 ↓23 |
| Lea | Weary; gazelle | #69 ↓27 | — | #834 ↓81 |
| Jade | The gemstone | #73 ↓14 | — | #84 ↑13 |
| Romy | Diminutive of Rosemarie | #76 ↓9 | — | #926 new |
| Lena | Light, bright one | #80 ↑25 | — | #263 ↑8 |
| Josie | God will add | #164 ↑61 | — | #88 ↑46 |
| Bella | Beautiful | #142 ↓26 | #91 ↓28 | #109 ↓45 |
| Billie | Resolute protector | #93 ↑83 | — | #694 new |
| Myla | Merciful, gracious | #116 ↑93 | #94 ↓6 | #186 ↑91 |
| Kaia | Pure; sea | #98 ↑67 | — | #180 ↑121 |
| Lara | Citadel, protection | #124 ↑66 | #98 new | #740 ↓35 |
| Mira | Ocean, sea; peace, world | #118 ↑101 | — | #380 ↑106 |
| Wren | The small bird | #120 ↑169 | — | #213 ↑148 |
| Remi | Oarsman | #176 ↓3 | — | #145 ↓20 |
| Tessa | Harvest (short form of Theresa) | #172 ↓52 | — | #303 ↓22 |
| Callie | Beautiful voice (short form of Calliope) | #189 ↓52 | — | #176 ↓11 |
| Mya | Mine; linked to the goddess Maia | #191 ↓94 | — | #366 ↓124 |
| Lexie | Defender of the people | #232 ↓119 | — | — |
| Eve | Life | #241 ↓103 | — | #569 ↓99 |
Boys 13 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theo | Gift of God (short for Theodore) | #17 ↑13 | #12 ↑5 | #80 ↑92 |
| Charlie | Free man (diminutive of Charles) | #63 ↑12 | #22 ↓10 | #176 ↑28 |
| Max | Greatest (short form of Maximilian) | #86 ↑3 | #48 ↓15 | #175 ↓28 |
| Beau | Beautiful, handsome | #50 ↑57 | — | #69 ↑40 |
| Kai | Sea | #51 ↑28 | #78 new | #76 ↑17 |
| Eli | Ascension, my God | #69 ↓21 | — | #92 ↓32 |
| Enzo | Short form of Vincenzo/Lorenzo | #112 ↑29 | #84 new | #74 ↑99 |
| Jace | Short form of Jason or Jacob | #160 ↓35 | — | #114 ↓18 |
| Jake | Supplanter (short form of Jacob) | #128 ↓50 | — | #422 ↓102 |
| Cole | Coal-black; victory of the people | #181 ↓37 | — | #162 ↓30 |
| Zack | Yahweh remembers | #218 ↓106 | — | — |
| Remi | Oarsman | #225 ↑27 | — | #809 ↓40 |
| Wren | The small bird | #639 ↑643 | — | — |
How this collection is built
The names are grouped by hand; every rank beside them is an official birth registration count, read from each place’s most recent complete list. A name that ranks for both girls and boys appears under both tabs with its own rank in each — those two positions are often far apart, and that gap is the interesting part.
See the same names year by year in the full rankings.
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