You and your partner swipe separately through 52,000 real names from the UK and US birth registers. That Baby Name shows you only the ones you both said yes to.
real names, every one given to real babies
national birth registers, across the UK and US
letters for your partner to type in to join you
names revealed that you did not both like
Read a list of names out loud together and the first reaction wins. One of you winces, the other lets it go, and a name neither of you had properly thought about is gone.
So you each swipe on your own. Neither of you sees what the other liked until you have both liked the same name. Then it appears for both of you at once, and nothing else is ever shown.
A name you quietly liked and your partner passed on stays yours. They never find out.
You both see the same names in the same sequence, so you overlap early instead of passing each other for two hundred cards.
Matches are worked out fresh on every swipe. Take back a like and the match simply stops being one.
One of you sets it up. The other only needs the code.
Choose a name to go by, then girls, boys or everything, and UK, US or everywhere.
Send the six letters, or hold up the QR code if the other parent is next to you.
Right for yes, left for no, undo if you were too quick. On the sofa or on separate trains.
A name you both liked turns up straight away on both screens. That list is all you share.
Ready when you are.Start a session in your browser and send the code.
Start a sessionFilter the deck. Narrowing your own deck mid-swipe leaves your partner's untouched.
Share a six-letter code or a QR code to invite the other parent. No email, no phone number.
Liked a name too fast? Take it back, and any match it made disappears for both of you.
Nothing to sign up for. The app remembers your session on the device you use.
Add the web app to your home screen and it opens like any other app, full screen.
iPhone and Android apps coming soon.
Nothing was made up for a list. Every name in the deck was given to real babies and recorded in a national register. England and Wales go back to 1996 and Northern Ireland to 1997; Scotland and the US cover 2025. Each name's figures come from the most recent year it appeared.
| Register | Published by | Names |
|---|---|---|
| England & WalesONS | Office for National Statistics (ONS) | 39,380 |
| ScotlandNRS | National Records of Scotland (NRS) | 1,929 |
| Northern IrelandNISRA | Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) | 986 |
| United StatesSSA | Social Security Administration (SSA) | 28,638 |
| In the deck | All four registers, each name counted once | 52,813 |
A name recorded in several registers is still one card, so the register counts add up to more than the 52,813 in the deck. The UK has 39,454 distinct names across its three registers.
Baby name figures for England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland come from the Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
US baby name data is published by the Social Security Administration and is in the public domain.
None of these bodies endorses That Baby Name. Where a card shows a meaning or an origin, that is our own editorial work and not part of the register data.
It runs in the browser, it is free, and there is no account to make.
Only the ones they liked as well. Everything else you swipe stays on your side.
No. It is free, and you do not need an account to use it.
No. Share the code by message and swipe whenever suits each of you. Matches turn up on both screens as they happen.
Undo the swipe. If that name was a match, it stops being one for both of you.
The national birth registers: England and Wales from 1996, Northern Ireland from 1997, and Scotland and the US for 2025. See the sources.
Both are being prepared for the App Store and Google Play. Until then the web app does everything, and you can add it to your home screen.