Developers

Every name on this site is backed by structured data — SSA birth counts by year and sex since 1880, plus trend classification, geography and cultural context computed on top. You can query all of it directly: a free REST API for code, and a remote MCP server for AI agents.

MCP server

NobodyNamed runs a remote MCP server at https://nobodynamed.com/mcp — no API key, no auth, no signup. Point any MCP-capable agent at it and it can look up names, compare trajectories, and pull demographic and geographic profiles instead of scraping pages or guessing from training data.

Claude Desktop / claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste in https://nobodynamed.com/mcp. No config file editing needed.

Claude Code and other clients that read an MCP config file, add:

{ "mcpServers": { "nobodynamed": { "type": "http", "url": "https://nobodynamed.com/mcp" } } }

Or talk to it directly with any JSON-RPC client:

curl https://nobodynamed.com/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Tools

Tool	What it does
`search_names`	Prefix autocomplete for a name.
`get_name_data`	Full 1880–2025 timeseries and trend classification for a name.
`get_names_by_status`	Curated lists: extinct, endangered, rising, comeback.
`get_year_names`	Top names for a given birth year.
`get_decade_names`	Top names aggregated across a decade.
`get_year_movers`	Biggest rank gainers, losers and new entrants vs. the prior year.
`get_name_debuts`	Names appearing in SSA records for the first time in a given year.
`compare_names`	Side-by-side yearly series for 2–3 names.
`get_name_twin`	Names with the most similar popularity trajectory.
`get_name_enrichment`	Living population estimate, median age, wave shape, cultural catalysts, historical era profiles.
`get_name_diaspora`	Geographic origin and spread over time.
`get_site_metadata`	Dataset overview: year range, totals, top-10 per year.

The server only answers from SSA-derived data — it has no etymology, meaning, or pronunciation for a name. For that, ask the agent itself; most models already know common name origins reasonably well.

REST API

Every MCP tool above is a thin wrapper over a plain REST endpoint, so you can call the data directly from any language without an MCP client. Full reference: name-data-api.md. A machine-readable index of these data endpoints is published at /.well-known/api-catalog.

In-browser agents

Pages on this site also register tools via WebMCP (navigator.modelContext), so a browser-based agent already on a page can search and look up names without leaving the tab. This is separate from the remote MCP server above and only runs client-side.

Terms

Free to use, no rate limits enforced today — please be a reasonable citizen with request volume. Source data is SSA, CC0 public domain. See About for what the classification labels mean and what's excluded from the underlying data.