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Sixteen ways to look at American names, all running on the same public datasets and all free to use without an account.
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Last Name Frequency Checker
See how many Americans share your surname, with its national rank.
Name Rarity Checker
Find out whether your name is everyday, uncommon or genuinely rare.
Name Age Distribution
See the likely age range of people who share your first name.
Name Gender Checker
Check how a name splits between boys and girls, and how that shifted.
Name Combination Checker
Compare full-name combinations and see which pairing is rarest.
Name Rarity Percentile
Place a name on a 0-100 scale against every other recorded name.
Baby Name Popularity by Year
Chart a name's births for every year from 1880 to 2025.
Rare Name Generator
Discover real but seldom-used names, filtered by style and rarity.
Name Popularity Rank
Look up a name's rank nationally and in any single year.
American Name Diversity Index
How much naming variety has grown in the US since the 1880s.
Name Meaning Checker
Origins and meanings for the most widely used American names.
Famous People With My Name
Notable people who share your first name, and how common it is.
Advanced Name Search
Search all 40,679 recorded names by pattern, length, gender, era and popularity.
Random Name Generator
Generate full names from real US records, with filters for era, gender and rarity.
Compare Names
Chart up to five names side by side and see which is rising or fading.
Name of the Day
A different name every day, with its full statistical profile.
Where to start
If you only use one page, make it the main lookup — it combines most of what the other tools show into a single result. The specialised pages exist for when you want one dimension in more depth.
If you are curious about yourself
Start with the main lookup, then try the age distribution, which is usually the most surprising result, and the popularity chart to see what was happening to your name the year you were born.
If you are naming a baby
The combination checker is the practical one, because it holds your surname fixed and shows how much the first name changes the outcome. The rare name generator is good for ideas, and the gender checker is worth a look for anything that might be drifting.
If you are here for the data
The diversity index and the ranking tables are the closest to raw analysis, and the methodology page explains exactly how every figure on the site is produced.