Short Baby Names

Baby names with 4 letters or fewer — short, strong, and beautifully memorable. Short names are easy to say, easy to spell, and often the most timeless. From Ava and Isla for girls to Jack and Finn for boys — short names have a clean, confident elegance that never goes out of style.

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Strong, healthy, establish, build

build, establish; healthy, strong; sword

Strong, healthy; or sword, arrow; or to supervise, inspect

heroic, outstanding, eminent; clean, pure; knot, tie

heroic, outstanding; to borrow; to rely on

youthful; a short form of Jillian or Jill

dew, moisture

English diminutive of James

supplanter

Supplanter

gold; advance, progress; forbidden, prohibited

quiet, still; essence, spirit; crystal, bright

Korean, Persian, English

gold, precious, or genie

Korean, Italian

gold, golden; or variant of Gino (well-born)

Dutch (diminutive of Jacobus), English (slang/derogatory)

God is gracious (diminutive of Jacob/Jacobus) or a term for a Romani person

farmer, earth-worker

Greek (via Slavic)

farmer, earth-worker

undifferentiated Japanese kana

second son

Wisdom, intellect, or a combination of characters

victorious, conqueror

Often a nickname or initialism for names starting with 'J'

God is gracious

brother of Yahweh; Yahweh is his brother

God is gracious

Portuguese, from Hebrew

God is gracious

God is gracious

God is gracious

God is gracious

horse warrior

Yahweh has given

Hebrew, English

persecuted, afflicted; or a diminutive of Joseph

a short form of names like Jocelyn, meaning 'Gaut'

Scottish diminutive of John

God is gracious

God is gracious

a short form of Jocelyn, meaning 'Gothic tribe' or 'joyful'

English, Hebrew

Jehovah increases

From Judea; praised

Yahweh is God

Yahweh is God

God is gracious

English diminutive of Joseph or Josephine

God will add; Jehovah increases

Joy, happiness

jewel, joy

joy, jewel

joy, happiness

second son; to assist, to help

Dutch diminutive of Johanna

God is gracious

pretty, lovely, beautiful

pretty, lovely

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