But if you look at the data from the Social Security Administration (SSA), which keeps track of baby names, you can see that the top five names each year have been getting shorter since the '90s.Īnd why not? Short names are easy to remember, easy to spell and roll off the tongue. Of course, you can always find counter-examples, like Charlotte and Isabella, two stunning, long girl names that have managed to stay in the top 10. According to Quartz, a popular news organization, the era of long, flowing girl names like Jessica, Brittany, Amanda, Samantha and Ashley has given way to punchier, shorter names like Cora, Luna, Ava and Mia. Some years, a pop-culture event inspires a new wave of baby names - we see you, all the Bridgerton babies out there - other years veer toward the traditional, timeless names.īelieve it or not, the length of a baby name changes with the current baby-name trends, too.
Sometimes, old-fashioned names are in, sometimes the new and modern takes over. When it comes to picking a baby girl name, everything comes in cycles.
