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Name the Baby.

Use the baby name generator to explore boy, girl, and unisex baby names by style, origin, popularity, first letter, syllables, and surname. Save favorites, create a unique name, compare finalists, and share a family baby-name poll.

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Catalog depth: 1,500 names. 241 have full reviewed meaning/origin/style profiles. Official SSA 2020–2025 Top 200 popularity is layered onto matching names without inventing popularity for the rest.
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V9 catalog: 1,500 names · 241 full editorial profiles · official SSA recent Top 200 popularity layer.
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Name Creation Lab

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Start with a meaning, a source word, two family names, or a translated idea. The Lab creates fresh possibilities and ranks them for sound and flow.
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Important: these are creative constructions, not automatically traditional names. A generated name can accidentally match an existing word or name in another culture, so the final choice should be checked before public use.
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Your shortlist

Favorites stay on this device. Two names unlock Battle Mode and a shareable family ballot.

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Explore baby names

Find baby names by gender, origin, style, letter, and meaning.

Name the Baby is a free one-page baby name generator built for the way families actually search. Start broad with boy, girl, or unisex names, or narrow the catalog by cultural tradition, first letter, style, syllables, length, ending sound, and recent U.S. popularity. Save the names you like and bring family or friends into the final decision.

Boy, girl & unisex baby names

Choose boy names, girl names, unisex names, or leave gender open. Reviewed examples include Benjamin and Leo for boys, Sophia and Imani for girls, and Rowan and Zion as unisex options.

Baby names by origin or tradition

Explore reviewed traditions represented in the catalog. Examples include Imani (African/Swahili usage), Aaliyah (Arabic), Benjamin (Hebrew), Saoirse (Irish), and Leo (Latin). Origin labels are only shown where the catalog has reviewed support.

Explore deeper reviewed groups: Hebrew boy names such as Noah, Elijah, Ezra, Levi, and Benjamin; Arabic girl names such as Aaliyah, Amina, Layla, Samira, and Zahra; Irish boy names such as Liam, Callum, Aiden, Nolan, and Declan; and Spanish girl names such as Isabella, Sofia, Lucia, Alma, and Catalina.

Newly expanded from V19 review: Arabic boy names such as Khalil, Amir, Zayn, Omar, and Faris; Irish girl names such as Maeve, Nora, Saoirse, Caoimhe, and Bronagh; Spanish boy names such as Mateo, Xavier, Rafael, Santiago, and Thiago; and Italian boy names such as Luca, Enzo, Nico, Danilo, and Arturo.

Baby names starting with A–Z

Looking for baby names that start with a particular letter? Use the Starts With filter from A through Z. For example, try A for Aaliyah, B for Benjamin, I for Imani, R for Rowan, or S for Sophia and Saoirse.

Unique, classic & distinctive baby names

Explore reviewed style tags such as classic, modern, distinctive, Southern, biblical, vintage, strong, elegant, and nature-inspired. Magnolia is tagged Southern, vintage and nature-inspired; Willow is nature-inspired and modern; Zion is biblical, modern and strong.

Baby names with meanings

Reviewed profiles explain meanings without pretending uncertain etymologies are settled. Sophia comes from the Greek word for “wisdom,” Leo is Latin for “lion,” Saoirse is Irish for “freedom,” and Imani is a Swahili name associated with faith.

Baby name shortlist & family poll

Save favorites on your device, compare two finalists in Name Battle, or share a live baby-name poll so family and friends can vote without creating an account. The generator, shortlist and voting flow stay together on this one page.

Use the baby name generator with these filters or create a unique baby name.

About the data: Name the Baby currently includes 1,500 names, with reviewed meaning/origin/style profiles for a growing portion of the catalog. Official U.S. Social Security Administration 2020–2025 Top 200 data is layered onto matching names. A name outside that recent Top 200 is not automatically labeled rare.