Every name, a bigger story

About NameStoria

A little curiosity. A world of connections.

Every name has a story. NameStoria is a reference for given names from around the world. It combines a name dictionary, an atlas of how names travel between languages, and practical tools for comparing and shortlisting names.

It is built for people researching their own name, multilingual families choosing a name that works in several languages, and writers and history enthusiasts who want to know where a name comes from.

What makes it different

Evidence first. Each meaning, etymology, pronunciation and statistic links to the record it came from, with its licence and retrieval date. See Sources and methodology.
Honest statistics. Popularity is shown per country and year from official releases, with the publisher’s rounding and suppression rules preserved. Missing data stays missing.
Languages, not flags. A name’s language contexts are documented separately from any country, and related forms are typed: variant, diminutive, transliteration, feminine or masculine form, shared root.
No accounts needed. Shortlists and notes live on your device.

What it does not do

It does not infer anyone’s ancestry, religion or personality from a name.
It does not invent a meaning when no source gives one; the page says “not established” instead.
It does not present a national dataset as a worldwide figure, or England and Wales as the whole United Kingdom.

Privacy

NameStoria does not require an account. Your shortlist and notes are stored only in your browser’s local storage on this device; they are not sent to our servers. Clearing site data removes them, and the shortlist page lets you export them as a file first.

Search suggestions are requested from this site as you type. We do not sell personal data and do not run third-party advertising trackers in this build. Pages link to external sources such as Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and statistics offices, which have their own policies.

This text describes how the application behaves. It is not a statement of compliance with any specific regulation; consult a professional before relying on it for legal purposes.

Contact and corrections

Corrections can be prepared from any name page with the “Report a correction” action, which creates a structured file you can send to the maintainers. The intended production domain is namestoria.com.

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What makes it different

Evidence first. Each meaning, etymology, pronunciation and statistic links to the record it came from, with its licence and retrieval date. See Sources and methodology.

Honest statistics. Popularity is shown per country and year from official releases, with the publisher’s rounding and suppression rules preserved. Missing data stays missing.

Languages, not flags. A name’s language contexts are documented separately from any country, and related forms are typed: variant, diminutive, transliteration, feminine or masculine form, shared root.

No accounts needed. Shortlists and notes live on your device.

Privacy

This text describes how the application behaves. It is not a statement of compliance with any specific regulation; consult a professional before relying on it for legal purposes.