The short baby names that travel across six official lists
We checked the latest official top 50 from the United States, England and Wales, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and France. Noah is the only short name present in all six.
Short names are often sold as “international.” Most are not universal. The six top-50 lists contain 204 short-name slots but 117 different normalized names. Only 14 appear in four or more countries.
Fourteen names cross four or more lists.
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 |
One six-country name. Six close followers.
Noah is the only six-list result
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 of the seven widest travellers are boys’ names
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.
Accent folding changes two rows
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.
Start with coverage, then check the exact local spelling.
If your family crosses languages, these seven names are a useful first pass. Open the profile, say it with the surname, and verify the spelling in the country that matters to you.
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