Our sources

One rule governs every fact on this site: it appears with a source, or it does not appear. Nothing on a page is generated guesswork.

Delivery windows

Every arrival window is computed from the printer’s own current estimates and re-derived when they change. No date on this site is typed by hand; an automatic check fails our build if one ever is.

Name meanings

Every meaning and origin on this site is quoted from Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (Macmillan, 1884), via Project Gutenberg eBook #70419, which is in the public domain. The gloss shown is the reference’s own, dated as it is, an 1884 etymology is a historical record, not the last word. A name the reference does not record simply shows no meaning: nothing on these pages is generated or guessed, and an automatic check fails our build if a meaning ever appears without its source.

Name popularity

Every rank, count and chart comes from the United States Social Security Administration’s public baby-names dataset (national file, 1880 through 2025 at this writing), redrawn without modeling or estimation. The dataset covers Social Security card applications and its early decades undercount; the charts show what the record shows. We refresh it when the SSA publishes each year’s file, and every year-stamped figure on the site moves together when we do.

Related names and the name tool

“Names that sit near” lists are scored by a fixed, published recipe, shared recorded origin, peak eras within fifteen years, matching syllable count, a shared first letter, minus a penalty for very different popularity, with ties broken alphabetically. No taste, no model, same answer every build.

The drawn child

The eight skin tones are computed for even perceptual spacing with at least three genuinely deep tones, each with its own shading, and the option names are neutral words, never ethnic labels. The picker preselects nothing.

The Name Kit

The four printables are drawn in your own browser from the facts on this site: the same cited meaning, the same public popularity data, the same letters you typed. Nothing is uploaded to make them, nothing in them is generated or guessed, and they are not documents of record of any kind, they are printables for a wall, a door, a desk and a fridge.