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 502 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.
The most popular baby names around the world
Which names run everywhere and which appear on one record only, read from the official birth records of 19 countries and regions. No invented world rank.
Names by region
The traditions grouped by where they come from, one page per region, with the records that belong to it.
Names that work in two languages
Read straight from the records: the names in the latest top 300 on both sides of a language line.
Baby names with roots
Browse baby names by the heritage they grew from: 78 traditions and counting.