About NameTheKid
NameTheKid helps expecting parents find a name they both love — by swiping, browsing and matching with a partner in real time, across iOS, Android and the web. Underneath the apps is the part that matters for trust: the data.
How the dataset is built
Every name on NameTheKid — 16,615 of them — carries the same structured fields: meaning, origin, a phonetic pronunciation respelling, a 0–100 popularity score, a popularity trend (rising, falling or stable), the decade it peaked, syllable count, and a style category. We are transparent about this because the data is the product.
- Pronunciation (100% coverage). Unlike most name sites, every single name has a phonetic respelling (e.g. Saoirse → SUR-sha), so you always know how a name is meant to sound.
- Meaning & origin. Each name's meaning and cultural origin, used to power our themed and heritage lists.
- Popularity & trend. A 0–100 relative score plus a direction, so you can choose how common or rare a name is — deliberately.
- Style & structure. A style category (classic, vintage, modern, biblical, nature and more) and structural facets (syllables, length, first letter) used for sibling matching and filtering.
Our principles
No fabricated statistics, no fake reviews, and no scraped filler descriptions. Every figure you see — a count on a list, a popularity score, a trend — is computed from the dataset. Pages are built people-first: each one leads with a real, human-readable fact, not a wall of links.
Who builds it
NameTheKid is built by Josh Salway. Questions or corrections about a name? Get in touch — we update the data.