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Namesake — baby name catalog and guides MCP Server

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Namesake — baby name catalog and guides is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.

Read-only access to Namesake's baby name catalog: meaning, origin, pronunciation, popularity trend.

Uptime history 62 days of history · worst day 0%
62 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
137 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 20 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

1 Oct 2 tools appeared get_cultural_classification, get_similar_names
26 Sep a tool description was rewritten list_namesake_feeds
25 Sep a tool disappeared get_membership_offer
20 Sep a tool appeared get_membership_offer

Namesake — baby name catalog and guides does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add discovery --transport http https://namesake.baby/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://namesake.baby/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.discovery]
url = "https://namesake.baby/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://namesake.baby/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "discovery": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://namesake.baby/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

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

cultural
get_cultural_classification
Returns the Phase 5 null-model cultural classification for a baby name (strongly cultural / culturally influenced / partial / fashion drift) — the same badge the name profile shows.
guide
get_guide
Returns one guide's full content (title, intro, sections) — the same content the human page renders; every guide on this host is free to read. Known topics (8): how-to-choose-a-baby-name, baby-name-checklist, partner-disagreement, baby-name-popularity, pronunciation-test, gender-neutral-names, most-culturally-driven-names-last-decade, why-names-go-in-and-out-of-fashion.
guides
list_guides
List every published, free-to-read baby-naming guide on this host. Known topics (8): how-to-choose-a-baby-name, baby-name-checklist, partner-disagreement, baby-name-popularity, pronunciation-test, gender-neutral-names, most-culturally-driven-names-last-decade, why-names-go-in-and-out-of-fashion.
name
get_name
Returns one baby name's public profile: meaning, origin, pronunciation, syllables, style/vibe tags, popularity rank + trend, and the Namesake score breakdown.
names
search_names
Search the baby name catalog by prefix/substring. Returns name, origin, short meaning, 2024 SSA popularity rank, Namesake score, and trend label, ordered by popularity.
namesake
list_namesake_feeds
List Namesake's free machine-readable feeds and their MCP/REST availability. OpenAPI is also published at https://www.namesake.baby/openapi.json.
similar
get_similar_names
Returns phonetic neighbors for a baby name from the research neighborhood graph — the same sounds-like list the /names/[slug] profile panel shows. Does not invent neighbors.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

get_membership_offer
removed 25 Sep 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://namesake.baby/api/mcp streamable-http answering 137 ms 7 min ago

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Namesake — baby name catalog and guides — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Namesake — baby name catalog and guides do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_cultural_classification, get_guide, get_name, get_similar_names, list_guides, list_namesake_feeds and 1 more. 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 Namesake — baby name catalog and guides working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 137 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Namesake — baby name catalog and guides ever remove tools?
Yes. get_membership_offer is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
The registry lists Namesake — baby name catalog and guides as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Namesake — baby name catalog and guides?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Namesake — baby name catalog and guides need an API key?
No. Namesake — baby name catalog and guides completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.