Learn more about personal names on the following websites:

Given Names

• U.S. Social Security Administration -U.S. Birth Name Statistics by year and state.
• BabyNames.com – Online since 1996, this site provides name meanings, origins, notes, top most popular lists and a large name community.
• Behind the Name – Extensive collection of names, meanings and cross-references.

Read more about the Lurline Coltharp Collection of Onomastics, housed at the University of Texas at El Paso.… Read More

Learn more about fictional names on the following websites:

CharacterNames.com – Tips on naming fictional characters and essays on fictional names from television, movies and books.… Read More

Learn more about place names on the following websites:

Placenames.com – Find countries, cities, towns, villages, mountains, hills, rivers, lakes, islands, and other geographic and administrative place names.

GeoNames – geographical database of place names

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names – find information about named places

Scots Words and Place-names – glossary of Scots words which are used in place-names

Gaelic Place-names of Scotland – national advisory partnership for Gaelic place-names in Scotland.… Read More

Check out what we can build using names!

These companies and organizations are building tools that you can use.

Software

• Ethnic Technologies – predictive ethnicity identification software
• NameSor – name recognition software
• How Many of Me – A calculation of how many people in the U.S. have your given name and surname