Short Names

Four letters or fewer, or one syllable. Short names pair well with long surnames and badly with short ones, which is the single most reliable thing anyone can tell you about choosing on sound.

60 names, uncommon — 100 to 499 a year, in United States

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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.

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