Baby names that fit your family
Every family grows its names on a tree. Pick a baby name with its whole family in view: the nicknames it branches into, the century of parents who chose it before you, and the heritage it grew from. Real records, verified meanings, no fluff.
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Five name families from our nickname tree. Each leaf is a real, connected short form; we map 503 families like these.
A century of baby names, flowing
Names rise, fade, and come back. Six lives from the record: Mary’s long reign, Dorothy’s arc, Emma and Hazel’s revivals, Noah and Liam arriving from nowhere.
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Stream width is the popularity tier by decade, from 130 years of US Social Security records.
The baby names climbing right now
Quiet a generation ago and near the top today, straight from the newest records.
Baby names with roots
Browse baby names by the heritage they grew from: 78 traditions and counting.