Every name has a story
Type a first name and see what it carries: the recorded meaning when a reference has one, the whole popularity run since 1880, and the names that sit near it. Then take the free kit home.
Type it. See what it carries.
Meaning and origin when the reference books record one, cited. Popularity from public data, redrawn. Nothing invented.
The reference books we cite don’t record a meaning for this one, so we won’t invent one. The book doesn’t mind: it works from the letters, not the etymology.
Take the free kit
Four printables drawn for this name, just below. And the book where the name is the story is in the works.
Keep it on the shortlist
Collecting candidates? Save this one next to the others.
That doesn’t look like a printable first name, 2 to 15 letters, apostrophes and hyphens welcome. Try again?
The free Name Kit
Four printables for the name, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
Look up a name above and the kit is drawn for it: a name print, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet and a shortlist sheet.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
The book where their name is the story
Preview pages rendered for the example child. Leave your email and hear when it is ready.
Their name is the plot
Not a sticker on a template. The child earns every letter of their own name across the story, and the name they were given is the reason the pages turn.
Drawn to look like them, honestly
The illustrated child is built from presets drawn in one hand: 8 skin tones with their own shading, 12 hair styles including braids, locs, coils and twists, 8 hair colors, 4 eye colors, glasses if worn. A storybook likeness, offered as a drawing and never as a portrait.
Every name checked before it is set
Each name passes the same automatic screen the press uses, and a person reads every order before it goes to print.
Three honest steps
We look it up, we never guess
Meanings are quoted from a public-domain reference and cited on the page. A name the reference does not record shows no meaning at all.
The chart is the record
Every rank and count comes from the Social Security Administration's public file, drawn as it is, back to 1880.
Shortlist, then decide
Save candidates side by side, run the sibling matcher against the names already in the house, and print the kit for the one you pick.
Two hundred names, each with its own page
Where it all comes from
Get the free Name Kit
Four printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet and a shortlist sheet. Yours in a moment, for one email.
Make the kitThe book is in the works
A printed picture book where your child earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
Preview the book