Short: ears to jaw
The bob, the quiff, the pompadour and the undercut. 30 hairstyles.
WorldBowl cut
A short haircut with a straight fringe and even length around the head.Cut · Any hair · 1400
🇯🇵 JapanChonmage
Traditional Japanese topknot worn by men, historically by samurai and now by sumo wrestlers.Updo · Straight hair · 1603
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreUndercut
Long top hair with shaved or buzzed sides and back.Cut · Any hair · 1910
🇬🇧 United KingdomQuiff
A voluminous front sweep with short sides and back.Styled · Any hair · 1950
🇵🇱 PolandCzupryna
A traditional Polish haircut with shaved sides and a long top, worn by nobility.Cut · 1308
🇰🇷 South KoreaSangtu
Traditional Korean topknot worn by married men.Updo · Any hair · 57
WorldRegular haircut
Classic men's style with tapered sides and combed top.Cut · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesConk
Chemically straightened hair popular with African-American men mid-20th century.Styled · Coily and kinky hair · 1920
🇫🇷 FranceTitus cut
Short layered cut with curls from late 18th-century FranceCut · Curly hair · 1791
🇺🇸 United StatesHi-top fade
Tall flat top with shaved sides from hip hop cultureCut · Coily and kinky hair · 1984
🇺🇸 United StatesShape-up
A sharp, straight trim along the natural hairline.Shaved · Coily and kinky hair · 1980
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreBroccoli haircut
Tapered sides with curly, layered top hair.Cut · Curly hair · 2018
🇺🇸 United StatesEdgar cut
A tapered Latino youth style with a straight fringe.Cut · Any hair · 2010
🇯🇵 JapanPunch perm
Tightly curled Japanese male hairstyle from the 1960s.Curls · Straight hair · 1960
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreMop-top
A bowl-shaped cut with a straight fringe, popularised by the Beatles.Cut · Straight hair · 1963
WorldTaper
A haircut that gradually shortens hair length from the top down to the sides and back.Cut · Any hair
🇯🇵 JapanMizura
Ancient Japanese hairstyle with side locksStyled · Any hair
🇺🇸 United StatesMohawk
A haircut with shaved sides and a central strip of upright hair.Cut · Straight hair · 1970
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDucktail
A 1950s men's cut with a central rear parting.Cut · Straight hair · 1950
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Shape-up: Stella8358, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Quiff: Anefo, CC0, source
- Czupryna: Nieznany malarz polski, Public domain, source
- Broccoli haircut: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, source
- Undercut: Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sangtu: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Hi-top fade: Kct02, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Edgar cut: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Titus cut: Adrien Pierre François Godefroy, Public domain, source
- Regular haircut: JParker9, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Punch perm: Mike, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bowl cut: Audun Gjerdi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Conk: NBC Television, Public domain, source
- Chonmage: not listed, Public domain, source
- Mohawk: Godmodeking, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ducktail: Oceanaris, CC BY 2.0, source