Intelligent name guidance, backed by data.
Understand the name before you choose it. Meanings, origins, popularity, pronunciation, and honest, clearly separated data confidence and name characteristics — for babies, characters, pets and brands.
Data you can trust
Every fact is labelled with its evidence status — never presented as more certain than it is.
Meaning and origin
Clear summaries, expanded etymology, and honest notes when sources disagree.
Trends and popularity
Regional trend charts with source and update metadata — see data sources for exactly what's real official statistics today.
Data Confidence
Confidence in the evidence behind a name's data — never a rating of the name itself.
Name Checker
Spelling, pronunciation, initials and availability checks in one place.
Explore the record
Namewise holds official birth-registration statistics from seven national registrars, and every grouping below is generated from them — each states the rule that decides what belongs in it.
- Browse the catalogue
Every recorded name, by first letter, by how it is recorded as used, by length or by how high it reached.
- Trend collections
Names grouped by what the statistics show — rising, falling, returning after an absence, or holding steady for decades.
- By country
The seven official registrars behind the data, what each records, and the years each publishes.
- By decade
Decade rankings from the 1950s onward, and which registrars published enough of each to rank it.
- By the data itself
The catalogue divided by what its record measures — how many registrars hold a name, how far back it goes, and how high it ever reached.
- Name rivalries
Pairs whose positions genuinely passed each other in a published list — when the order changed, and how long each led.
- Connected names
Where the relationship graph is densest, and the names with the most to explore from.
Name list ideas
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