Magic baby name finder
Short baby names of one or two syllables
A short name is easy to call, easy to spell, and easy to pair with a long family name. These baby names have one or two syllables, from Finn and Mia to Ren and Leo, and each comes with its meaning, its origin and how to say it, with the source recorded. Add your family name and the finder checks the rhythm of the two together - two single-beat names in a row can sound clipped, and it will tell you so.
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163 names
- Girl · Germanic
Short for Germanic names with adal, noble, such as Adelaide; also a Latin form of the Hebrew Adah
- Boy · Hebrew
Earth, man; from the Hebrew for red earth
- Girl · Latin
White; in Spanish, Italian and Catalan, dawn
- Boy · Arabic
High, exalted; from Arabic
- Girl · Latin
Usually explained as the Latin for nourishing, kind
- Boy · Arabic
Commander, prince
- Girl · Latin
Beloved; from the Old French Amee and the Latin Amata
- Girl · Hebrew
Favour or grace; a form of Anna
- Girl · Hebrew
Favour, grace; the Latin form of Hannah
- Boy · Hebrew
Lion, from the Hebrew; a variant of Arieh
- Girl · English
Often read as a musical aria; the Persian Arya means noble
- Girl · Germanic
A form of Eva; also an English form of the Irish Aoife
- Boy · Germanic
A Scandinavian name, linked to the Hebrew Absalom
- Girl · Turkish
In Turkish, the halo of light around the moon; in Hebrew, often said to mean oak or terebinth
- Boy · French
From the French word beau, or short for surnames like Beaumont
- Girl · Scottish
Field, plain; from the Scottish Gaelic blàr
- Girl · Scottish
A variant of Blair, from the Scottish Gaelic
- Unisex · English
A surname from the Old English for black, or for pale and fair; or from the Irish Ó Bláthmaic
Songs for Blake - Boy · Old Norse
From the Danish and Swedish Bo, or a spelling variant of Beau
- Boy · Germanic
Brown; from the Old High German brūn
- Boy · Celtic
A variant of Brice, from the Celtic languages
- Girl · Welsh
A variant of the Welsh name Bryn
- Boy · English
From English surnames: the Old English name Cada, lump, or a cooper, from cade, barrel
Songs for Cade - Girl · Germanic
Free man; a feminine form of Carl or Carlos
- Boy · English
From an English surname, from the Old English for coal-black, or a pet form of Nicholas
Songs for Cole - Boy · English
From the Middle English colt, a name for someone who looked after horses; also short for Colton
Songs for Colt - Boy · Welsh
From Crewe in Cheshire, from the Old Welsh criu, weir
- Boy · Spanish
Cross, from a Spanish and Portuguese surname
- Unisex · Hebrew
Delight, after the Garden of Eden
- Boy · Hebrew
Ascent
- Boy · Greek
From the Greek Helios
- Boy · Italian
An Italian name from the German Heinz, short for Heinrich: home and ruler
- Girl · Hebrew
Life; from the Hebrew Ḥawwāh, the name of the first woman in Genesis
- Boy · Hebrew
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