Baby Name Picker
Swipe through baby names with your partner and see the ones you both love. Free, no account.
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How it works
Two people, one deck, no account.
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Keep or pass, one name at a time. Arrow keys work, too.
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Send your keeps to your partner as a link. They pick from the same names, on their own time.
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See the names you both chose. Every name has 146 years of records behind it.
Choosing a baby name, one at a time
A baby name picker works best when it shows you one name and asks one question: keep it or pass. Baby Name Picker does that with every first name given to at least five children in the United States last year — 28,638 of them — so the deck is wide enough for a real search and small enough to finish.
Boy names, girl names and gender-neutral names
Set the gender filter to boy, girl or any. A name appears on both decks when neither side accounts for more than 90% of its births, which is how names like Rowan, Sage and Ezra reach both. Each name's page shows which way it leans today and whether that is changing.
Popular, rare or rising
The popularity filter sorts the deck into four kinds of names. Top 100 is the current chart. Classic names have stayed in the top 500 for most of the last century. Rare names are given to fewer than one child in ten thousand. Rising names have climbed the most over the past 10 years, which is usually where the name you have not heard yet is hiding. Classic, Rare and Rising hold exactly the names on the list of the same name.
Where the numbers come from
Every rank, count and chart on this site comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's public baby-name data, which lists names given to at least five children in a year, from 1880 to 2025. We recompute ranks and trends from that data each spring, when the new year is published. We do not estimate or forecast. Names with fewer than five births in a year are absent from the data, so a very rare name may show gaps. More about the data.
Two people, one list
Pick on your own, then send the list to your partner as a link. They go through the same
names on their own phone, and the match page shows the ones you both kept — a baby name
matcher in the plainest sense: two lists, one overlap. Nothing is stored on our servers,
not even the link: the names ride in the part of the address after the #,
which browsers never send to a server.
Questions
How does the baby name picker work?
You see one name at a time. Press Keep or Pass, use the arrow keys, or swipe on a phone. Kept names collect in your list, which you can copy or send as a link.
Is it free?
Yes — no account, no payment, no trial. There are no ads on the site today; if we add any to cover what it costs to run, they will never sit beside the Keep and Pass buttons.
Do I need an account?
No. Your list is saved in your browser. A link is the only way it leaves your device, and you make that link yourself.
Where does the name data come from?
From the U.S. Social Security Administration's baby-name files, 1880–2025. Rank, births and trend are published exactly as computed from that data.
Can I pick names with my partner?
Yes. Send your list as a link. Your partner picks from the same names, and the match page shows the ones you both chose.
Can I filter by first letter or length?
Yes. Filters cover gender, first letter, length and popularity, and they can be combined.