The Perfect Name Finder
Tell us about your family. We’ll weigh the rest.
Traditions, the people you want to honor, the names your children already carry, the sounds and meanings you love. Add as much or as little as you like — every suggestion shows its reasons.
Tell us about your family once. Every Finder can start from it, on any device when you’re signed in.
Your family’s traditions
Choose a tradition, adjust its ingredients, or brew your own.
Irish
The Irish pattern honored both grandfathers and grandmothers before the parents, then reached out to the eldest aunts and uncles. It was kept across classes and denominations well into the twentieth century.
About the baby
Only what your traditions need; everything here is optional.
People you want to honor
Add relatives to remember, celebrate or avoid. We’ll look for their names, familiar forms, shared roots and sounds.
Siblings, and names it should go with
We look for names that belong in the same set: a shared style, era and feel, without rhymes or repeated sounds.
Sound
Names you love the sound of, how they begin, and how they sit with your surname.
Style, meaning and roots
Pick as many as feel right; names that match more rise higher.
Boy, girl, or both — and how common
Set a comfortable range. Popularity describes use, never value.
Weighing names…
The Finder suggests; you decide. Traditions vary between families and communities, so treat every reason as a starting point for your own conversation.