When it comes to the most popular baby names, for a while, the trend was to make them shorter. Quartz published a story about the "rise of the four-letter baby name," and the popularity of names like Cora and Luna seemed to prove the right.
But as with all things, baby name trends are cyclical, and it's looking more and more like that trend is reversing. Name lists are being filled with seven-letter-and-up, multi-syllable names that trip off the tongue like a song. If you're looking for long baby names for girls, we've dived into the data to find out which names are popular, which are up-and-coming and which ones are totally unique.
Most Popular Long Names for Girls
The Social Security Administration (SSA) keeps track of the baby names that are used most often in the United States. In 2019, after a five-year reign, the four-letter name Emma was unseated by the longer, six-letter Olivia, which is still in the top spot. Does that mean winds of change are blowing in the direction of longer names? Only time will tell, but currently, these are the most popular long names for girls, according to the SSA.
- Charlotte
- Isabella
- Abigail
- Elizabeth
- Scarlett
- Eleanor
- Madison
- Penelope
- Victoria
- Lillian
- Addison
- Paisley
- Natalie
- Brooklyn
- Kinsley
- Genesis
- Aaliyah
- Madelyn
- Savannah
- Delilah
- Serenity
- Caroline
- Kennedy
- Valentina
- Gabriella
- Allison
- Natalia
- Josephine
- Samantha
- Leilani
These Long Names for Girls Are Getting More Popular
The SSA also keeps a list of the names that have experienced the biggest jumps in popularity. While these haven't reached the highest ranks of the most popular names, expect to meet more and more kids with these long names in the future. The biggest climber, Avayah, jumped a whopping 1,546 places in rank!
- Avayah
- Denisse
- Rosalia
- Haisley
- Wrenley
- Marleigh
- Mazikeen
- Bellamy
- Oaklynn
- Giavanna
- Brynleigh
- Florence
- Nathalia
- Kamiyah
- Aubrielle
- Kataleya
- Ellianna
- Katalaya
- Persephone
- Marceline
- Clementine
- Magnolia
- Priscilla
- Estrella
- Francesca
- Esperanza
- Theodora
- Remington
- Everleigh
- Evangeline
As you can see, lengthening a name by adding -lynn or -leigh seems to be a trend on the rise.
Unique Long Name for Girls
These long names for girls did not make the SSA's most recent list of the top 1,000 baby names, so yours will likely be the only one in the class with one of these monikers on their lunch box.
- Amethyst
- Antoinette
- Bernadette
- Carrington
- Chrysanthemum
- Domenica
- Eulalia
- Finnleigh
- Georgiana
- Hermione
- Imogene
- Kensington
- Lorraine
- Mathilda
- Mercedes
- Nicolette
- Olympia
- Philomena
- Prudence
- Rhiannon
- Rosalinda
- Rosamund
- Seraphinia
- Shoshana
- Strawberry
- Tennessee
- Vincenza
- Wilhelmina
- Yulianna
- Yasmeen
- Zipporah
Other Long Names for Girls
Not too popular, not too obscure, these names are just right.
- Esmeralda
- Genevieve
- Gwendolyn
- Hadassah
- Jacqueline
- Juliette
- Magdalena
- Octavia
- Veronica
- Xiomara
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found helping out her team at bar trivia or posting about movies on Twitter and Bluesky.
