About Namelette

Namelette makes warm, simple tools for the waiting months: a baby name generator that actually listens, name meanings with real popularity data, printable shower games and handy calculators.

Our free tools stay free. Optional extras like the Full Name Report and the Baby Kit keep the lights on.

Sources

• Name meanings and origins. 1,895 of our 2,489 names carry a meaning adapted from Wiktionary, by Wiktionary contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. We read the English Wiktionary entries through the Wiktextract / kaikki.org extract and shortened them to one line; each name page links to its source entry. Our adaptations are shared under the same license.
• When the origin is debated. For 364 names we couldn't confirm a meaning from a sourced etymology. Those pages say “origin debated” and give the commonly cited explanation only as a theory, never as fact.
• Popularity. Baby name counts and ranks come from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby names data (1940–2025). The SSA leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies in a year.
• Surnames. The Name Twin estimate uses the U.S. Census Bureau 2010 surname list.

Meanings vary between traditions, and Wiktionary itself is edited by volunteers, so treat any name meaning as a starting point rather than the final word.