Seven short names appear in at least five national top 50s
Noah is the only name with four letters or fewer that appears in all six national top 50s. Six other names appear in five.
Noah is the only short name on all six lists.
The six top-50 lists contain 204 short-name slots but 117 different normalized names. Only 14 appear in four or more countries. Only one appears in all six lists.
Fourteen names appear in at least four countries.
A dash means the normalized name was not in that country’s current top 50.
| Name | US | E&W | SE | NO | DK | FR | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noah | #2 | #2 | #1 | #1 | #4 | #5 | 6/6 |
| Liam | #1 | — | #3 | #7 | #24 | #11 | 5/6 |
| Ella | #29 | #39 | #9 | #4 | #2 | — | 5/6 |
| Luna | #27 | #48 | #27 | — | #3 | #28 | 5/6 |
| Léo | #19 | #5 | #9 | #28 | — | #4 | 5/6 |
| Adam | — | #35 | #11 | #29 | #50 | #7 | 5/6 |
| Theo | — | #12 | #23 | #22 | #10 | #35 | 5/6 |
| Emma | #3 | — | — | #1 | #1 | #5 | 4/6 |
| Hugo | — | #46 | #2 | — | #13 | #24 | 4/6 |
| Lily | #18 | #3 | #31 | — | #13 | — | 4/6 |
| Nora | #20 | — | #44 | #3 | #10 | — | 4/6 |
| Alma | — | — | #6 | #8 | #4 | #6 | 4/6 |
| Mia | #6 | #14 | — | #21 | — | #13 | 4/6 |
| Mila | #43 | #46 | #21 | — | — | #48 | 4/6 |
Noah appears in all six lists; six names appear in five.
Noah appears in every list
Noah ranks first in Sweden and Norway, second in the United States and England and Wales, fourth in Denmark, and fifth in France. That is unusually broad top-50 presence, not a global popularity score.
Five boys’ names and two girls’ names reach at least five lists
Noah, Liam, Leo, Adam, and Theo appear in at least five lists. Ella and Luna are the two girls’ names at that level in this snapshot.
Leo and Theo include accent variants
Léo/Leo and Théo/Theo share a normalized Luma slug, so their country coverage is combined. The matrix keeps each source’s displayed spelling visible in the underlying data; it does not claim the spellings are identical.
Borrow the shortlist. Keep your own spelling.
If your family crosses languages, put these seven near the top of the list. Then say each one with the surname and check the local spelling where your child will actually use it.
Same cutoff, different national systems.
For each country we selected the newest year in Luma’s checked-in official snapshot, kept ranks 1–50, and counted names with no more than 4 Unicode letters. We grouped rows by Luma’s normalized search slug, which removes accents.
When the same normalized name appeared more than once in one country, we kept its best rank. Country coverage—not average rank—sets the table order.
The source years differ: 2025 for the United States, Sweden, and Norway; 2024 for England and Wales, Denmark, and France. Agencies also handle spelling variants differently.
Germany is excluded because Luma’s current German data is municipal rather than a national newborn list. A top-50 absence does not mean a name is unused, and ranks should not be compared as if populations and methods were equal.
Official sources and snapshot years
- United States 2025 · Social Security AdministrationOpen official source
- England & Wales 2024 · Office for National StatisticsOpen official source
- Sweden 2025 · SkatteverketOpen official source
- Norway 2025 · Statistics NorwayOpen official source
- Denmark 2024 · Statistics DenmarkOpen official source
- France 2024 · INSEEOpen official source