About Seek Baby Names
Seek Baby Names is a quick, playful way to find a name you love — made for scrolling, shuffling, and happy accidents, not for wading through a spreadsheet or a long dropdown list.
How to use it
- Just scroll. Every visit opens with a fresh set of Featured Names drawn from the 10,000 most-used names in the U.S.
- Shuffle deals out a fresh random set — from all of the names, or from whatever you've narrowed things down to.
- Filter by Girl, Boy, or Gender Neutral, by first letter, to names with a meaning on file, or to the Top 10,000 — or search for a specific name.
- Tap a name to see its meaning, origin, and history — and for popular names, a chart of how its popularity has risen and fallen over the decades.
- Tap the heart to save a name. Your saved list stays on your own device, and you can share it as a simple page with a partner or family.
Where the names come from
Every name and number on this site comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby name data, which is in the public domain. It includes every first name given to at least five babies of the same sex in a single year, from 1880 through 2025 — 117,820 name-and-sex combinations in all.
- Popularity rank (for example, "#12 in 2025") is where that name ranked among babies of the same sex born in 2025. Sorting by "Popular" uses this rank.
- Gender Neutral names are ones where the less common sex has at least 50 recorded births and makes up at least 2% of all births with that name — so a name only counts if it's genuinely used for both boys and girls, not just a handful of times.
- Meanings and origins come from a community-compiled, openly shared list of name meanings. They're a friendly guide rather than an authority, and not every name has one yet.
No accounts, no sign-ups
There's nothing to log in to. Saved names are stored only in your own browser — see the Privacy Policy for details.
Get in touch
Spotted a meaning that looks off, or have an idea for the site? We'd love to hear from you — see the Contact page.