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 5 tools.

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

Uptime history 10 days of history · worst day 10%

10 days agonow

9.8%

Uptime 24h

9 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

1083 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Namesake — baby name catalog and guides does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 14.8% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add discovery --transport http https://namesake.baby/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discovery": {
      "url": "https://namesake.baby/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

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://namesake.baby/openapi.json.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://namesake.baby/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	116 ms	1 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 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_guide, get_name, list_guides, list_namesake_feeds, search_names. 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 9 of 92 checks got a reply (9.8%), average response time 1083 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

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 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 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 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Namesake — baby name catalog and guides?

It answers our handshake in 1083 ms on average, which is faster than 7% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.