Made for the two people who have to agree.

Naming a baby is one of the first big decisions two people make together, and one of the few where a couple who agree on everything else can get completely stuck. Name Battle exists to unstick it. Instead of another endless alphabetical list, it gives you small games that end in a decision:

• Couple swipeYou and your partner swipe the same deck; only the names you both liked come back.
• Name battleTwo names, one tap, every measure side by side — and what the crowd picked.
• Family voteSend one link; everyone reacts from their phone, with no account and no app.
• TournamentA bracket for a long shortlist: eight, sixteen or thirty-two names down to one.
• Reveal gameFriends and family guess your hidden pick before you announce it.
• Full comparisonStatistics, history, an initials check and a written verdict for your finalists.

Amelia

Charlotte

Olivia

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Olivia

Just the name. Go with your first feeling.

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Behind the games sits an encyclopedia: a page for each of the 117,820 names in the US record, with its rank every year since 1880, its spelling family, how it travels abroad and, for thousands of names, its story and the people who carried it. Then the A–Z catalog, top names by year and by state, the risers, the unisex names, the predictions, and 265 editorial guides. All of it is free and open — the encyclopedia is how most people find us.

Five rules. They are the reason the site looks and behaves the way it does, and they are the things you can hold us to.

1. 1

   Measured before estimated.

   Every rank and count on the site is published by a national statistics agency. Anything we calculate on top of it is labeled an estimate, and the formula is written out on the data page.

2. 2

   Whoever you invite plays free.

   A partner, a grandmother, a group chat: one link, one tap, no account, no cost. Only the person creating the games ever pays, and only if they want more than the free plan.

3. 3

   One payment, because naming ends.

   Name Battle Unlimited is $9.99, once. A subscription would keep billing long after the birth certificate is signed, so we do not sell one.

4. 4

   Private by default.

   No advertising network, no data brokers, no session recordings. Votes attach to a random browser id rather than a name, and a raw IP address is never stored.

5. 5

   Gentle on purpose.

   A name is not a contest anyone loses. The games end in agreement, not in a scoreboard: reactions instead of rankings, matches instead of winners.

The backbone is the United States federal record: every first name given to five or more babies of one sex in a year, nationally and by state, since 1880 — 146 years, published by the Social Security Administration and refreshed each spring. For the wider picture we carry the current official rankings from the Office for National Statistics (England and Wales), National Records of Scotland, INSEE (France) and Statistics Canada — 5 national agencies in all.

Some figures are not counts but calculations: how many people with a name are alive today, how many will share it in a classroom, the typical age of someone who carries it, how a name is likely to age. Those come from published actuarial life tables and birth cohorts, they are always labeled as estimates, and every formula is written out on the data and methodology page so you can check our work.

Two things the data cannot tell you: what a name means, and whether it suits your family. Where a name’s history runs out we say so, rather than dressing up folklore as fact.

Name Battle is independent. There is no advertising network on the site, no data broker behind it and no investor setting a timeline. It is built and run by its founder, which is why it can promise things a large network cannot: no ads, one price, and a support inbox read by the person who wrote the code.

The site launched in August 2026 and it is small on purpose: no feed, no streaks, nothing that exists to keep you scrolling. You come with a shortlist and you leave with a name.

Browsing every name, reading every guide, running quick battles, and voting, swiping or guessing on any link somebody shares with you are free, with no account, for good. A free account adds 3 full comparisons, 2 family vote pools, 2 swipe decks, 2 reveal games and an eight-name tournament — enough to find out whether this suits you before spending anything.

If you are deep in the deciding phase and want no limits, Name Battle Unlimited is a single payment of $9.99: unlimited comparisons, vote pools, decks and reveal games, the big sixteen- and thirty-two-name brackets, and every Unlimited feature we add later. It is not a subscription and never renews. The pricing page lists everything; the refund policy says when money comes back.

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns.

Write to support@babynamebattles.com for anything: a question, a correction, a receipt, a data request. A person who works on the site reads every message and answers from the same address; we aim to reply within two business days.

For a purchase, include the email you bought with and the Paddle receipt number. For a data request, write from the address on the account so we know it is you. For a number you think is wrong, tell us the page — if it disagrees with the agency that published it, that is a bug and we will fix it.

Journalists and researchers: the dataset behind the rise and fall of American names is downloadable as a CSV, and the methodology is public.