Names with the most nicknames
35 names in our files carry four or more short forms on record. Margaret leads with 12. Every short form we hold is listed on the name’s row, and each name links to its own page.
Margaret 12 short forms
Elizabeth 11 short forms
Katherine 8 short forms
Alexandra 8 short forms
Alexander 7 short forms
Josephine 7 short forms
Robert 7 short forms
William 6 short forms
Catherine 6 short forms
Wilhelmina 5 short forms
The rule, in words: every name in our nickname files with four or more short forms filed under it. Names are ordered by how many short forms they carry, then by how many children were given the name in the United States in 2025, then alphabetically.
Counts come from US Social Security records for 2025, which leave out any name given to fewer than five children in a year. The short forms are the ones our files hold: a family somewhere is always making a new one.
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