Nameidea MCP Server

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answering

Nameidea is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 2 tools.

Search recorded surnames with 2010 U.S. Census ranks, counts and traceable sources.

Uptime history 16 hours of history

16 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

57 of 57 checks

Tools

read from the server

191 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Nameidea every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add nameideahub --transport http https://nameideahub.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nameideahub": {
      "url": "https://nameideahub.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.nameideahub]
url = "https://nameideahub.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nameideahub": {
      "url": "https://nameideahub.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nameideahub": {
      "url": "https://nameideahub.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

surname

get_surname_record

Look up a stable surname ID returned by search_surnames, with Census rank, count, source and actual collection pages. not_found applies only to this 3,000-record subset.

surnames

search_surnames

Filter 3,000 imported 2010 U.S. Census surname records or the website's curated collections. Returns rank-ordered, paginated records and sources. No meanings or availability checks.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://nameideahub.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	114 ms	8 min ago

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Nameidea — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Nameidea do?

It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_surname_record, search_surnames. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Nameidea working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 57 of 57 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 191 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Nameidea?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Nameidea need an API key?

No. Nameidea completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Nameidea?

It answers our handshake in 191 ms on average, which is faster than 64% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.