15,000+ Two-Syllable Girl Names

An old-man name that sounds cute when used for a little girl, and is starting to seem cool again for boys too.

Also a city near Tel Aviv, Hadar is a name found primarily in Israel. There is also a citrus fruit associated with the holiday of Sukkat the Torah calls the "hadar fruit".

An alternative to the highly popular Aubrey. It entered the US Top 1000 back in 2001, peaked in 2012 when it neared the Top 300, then dropped out of the charts in 2023. Aubree remains the more popular alternative.

The name of a red-haired warrior-woman in the Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series and its TV adaptation Game of Thrones, in which the character is played by Scottish actress Rose Leslie. Note - the name is pronounced the same way as egret - a type of heron.

Wren is one of the trendiest girl names in recent years, and the longer forms Wrenley and now Wrenlee are firmly in the Top 1000 as well. This leads to Wrenlyn, which combines the popular wren prefix with the trendy -lyn ending. Wrenlyn debuted for the first time in the US data in 2022, and was given to 8 baby girls. The spelling Wrenlynn was also a new debut.

Nansi is a phonetic Welsh spelling of Nancy that is currently popular in Wales.

Boyish nicknames for girls are in! With Leni rising, Bennie may appeal. Kylie & Jason Kelce use Bennie as a nickname for their third daughter - full name Bennett Llewellyn. After decades of no recorded usage, Bennie is now given to about 30 baby girls per year.

Tsuyu is the Japanese word for the plum rain, or the East Asian rainy season. It was adopted as a name for a character in the anime series My Hero Academia.

A wonderful Yiddish diminutive of Sarah, most familiar to Americans as the name of Tevye’s eldest daughter in Joseph Stein’s Fiddler on the Roof.

An Arabic name that can easily cross cultures. Janan might make a distinctive honor name for an ancestral Jan, Jane, or John.

Māori form of India, also found as a male name: the Māori form of Aeneas.

Cana is well-known to readers of the Bible as the city where Jesus performed his first miracle. If other place names, both modern and ancient, real and mythical, can be baby names, why not Cana? Rhyming with Dana, it can work for either gender.

Teigen is rising in popularity now that model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen has made it more visible.

Royalty was the hottest name of 2016, moving furthest up the ladder to enter the Top 1000, and is also arguably the trendiest name of the past decade, used a whopping 71 times as often in 2017 as it was ten years earlier. Royalty represents the convergence of two important trends: word names and superlative names such as Legend and King. This is one we'll hear a lot of for a while.

A Hungarian name rarely heard outside its native culture.

Turkish variant of Lale

Spicy.

Sweet and charming French nickname for Anne, à la Manon for Marie.