One Syllable Names for Girls

Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.

Parks is a rare member of the fashionable single-syllable, S-ending surname crowd, which includes trending choices like Brooks, Banks, Hayes and Wells.

All but unheard of today, Floy was a popular Florence nickname used on its own in a century ago: it was Number 448 in 1914.

Old Norse choice used for baby girls in Iceland and on the Faroe Islands.

Hiam is best known as the name of Hiam Abbass — a Palestinian actress and director currently in Succession.

For your Starbucks order, not your baby.

In Slavic mythology, Živa is the goddess of life, fertility, and the Spring season. Viva and Vita are more familiar cognates.

Putting a Welsh spin on the trend for noble and title names.

Gianna and Gia are both red-hot in recent years, so it is only natural that alternative spellings will begin popping up as well. This leads us to Ghia — still short and sweet, but may cause some more confusion.

For the boyds. Er, boys, if only judging my the statistics, which have this rare bird name given to a handful of baby boys in the US but no recent baby girls. But it certainly would make a majestic choice for a child of either gender.

Fresh, evocative choice.

One supermodel name--that of the Lithuanian Egle Tvirbutaite--which is far from as beautiful to American ears as she is.