Top 20 Most Popular First Names by Length

Do you have a really long name, one that doesn't fit in any forms? Or is your name so short people mistake it for your initials? Here are the top 20 lists of the most popular first names based on their length. There is a list for each length of name from two letters long all the way to ten letters long or longer. But first here are two histograms (bar graphs) showing which name lengths are the most common, one based on the count of unique names and the other based on the popularity of the names.


32% 24% 16% 8% 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+ Length of names 0.1% 0.5% 3.2% 13.2% 24.1% 25.6% 17.4% 8.7% 7.2%

Select the length in letters of the given name:

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10+
  1. ED116092
  2. JO109062
  3. AL91231
  4. TE47863
  5. LI26671
  6. BO26091
  7. YU23955
  8. LA19047
  9. TY18685
  10. MI18429
  1. LE17965
  2. MA15913
  3. DE13753
  4. YI13312
  5. SU13038
  6. AJ12932
  7. LU12783
  8. HA12630
  9. HO11859
  10. AN11292

The table above shows the top 20 most popular names of the name of the particular length.

What can we conclude from these charts?

Slightly less than half the names in use in the United States are six or seven letters long (median value is seven letters long). More than ninety percent of Americans have a name that is between four and eight letters long (median value is five letters long). Therefore, we can qualify a names as short if the name is three letters or shorter and long if it is nine letters or longer.