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A baby-name library for parents-to-be

A name they'll
grow into.

Meanings, pronunciation, family fit, and popularity over time. The library you'd want when the name actually matters.

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1007 names
Curated
145 yrs
Of US popularity data
55 origins
Languages traced
See it in motion

How a name moves over a century.

Popularity is the second-most-asked question after meaning. We carry the full SSA timeline, 1880 to 2025, log-scaled so the top-ten zone reads. This is Olivia.

Peaked at #1 in 2019, and is #1 again in 2025.

Every name in the library gets the same chart. See Olivia's full page →

The small things that help you choose.

Popularity over time

A century of data in one chart. See whether a name is rising, fading, or quietly its own.

See what's moving →

Hear it out loud

A name lives in voices, not on a page. Pronunciation, syllables, IPA, heard the way everyone who'll say it will.

Browse and listen →

Names that sit beside the ones you have

If there are already names at the table, the next one should belong with them. Sibling matches, rhythm-aware.

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The things you'd want to know

Playground worries, mispronunciations, and the small surprises a name can bring. Said plainly, before they matter.

Check initials →
What's moving

Names parents are quietly noticing.

Climbed hardest over the last five years of US data. The first signal, before a name goes mainstream.

Adhara
Now #370 · Girls
5300
Scottie
Now #909 · Boys
3767
Madisson
Now #319 · Girls
2490
Ailany
Now #14 · Girls
1816
Wrenlee
Now #358 · Girls
1675
Aylani
Now #293 · Girls
1459
All rising names, with five-year movement →
Try it together

Swipe through names together.

One partner swipes the deck and shares their link. The other opens it, swipes the same names in the same order. The yeses you both land on become your matches.

Pure browser, no accounts, nothing leaves your devices.

Try the couple's match Or open your shortlist →
That's the deck.

Share your link so they can swipe the same names.

Where to start

Three ways into the library.

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By what they mean

Light, strength, faith, the natural world. Names cluster around the things their roots care about.

LightStrengthFaithNatureSky & seaJoyLifeFree-spiritedWisdom
02

By how they feel

Classic, vintage revival, biblical, surname-first. Vibe as much as meaning.

ClassicVintage revivalSurname-firstBiblicalSpanish & LatinoCeltic
03

By where they're from

The language a name carries — its root, its first home, the sounds it was built from.

HebrewGreekLatinSpanishArabicCelticOld EnglishSanskrit
FAQ

Questions worth a direct answer.

Every chart is built from the US Social Security Administration's full baby-name dataset, 1880 to 2025 — the most complete public record of how names rise and fall. We log-scale it so the gap between #1 and #10 reads as clearly as #200 and #500.
Meanings are traced to a name's actual linguistic root, not the prettiest story online. Where reputable sources disagree, we say so plainly rather than picking the nicer version.
Not yet. Embrisa is built to work beautifully in the browser, on a phone or a laptop, with nothing to install. The swipe deck and shortlist already run entirely on your device.
Yes. Your shortlist lives in your browser, not our database. No account, no email, nothing for us to lose and nothing for you to delete later.
Because a name is spoken far more than it's read. A name that's lovely on paper but constantly mispronounced becomes a different name in real life, so we put voices, syllables and IPA right up front.
Growing every release. We carry Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Arabic, Celtic, Old English and Sanskrit roots today, with pronunciation recorded for each rather than quietly anglicised.