Data Attribution & Open Licenses
BabyNameSuggest respects intellectual property and open-source licenses. Below are the mandatory copyright notices, license texts, and attribution acknowledgments for all third-party datasets incorporated into this application.
1. US Social Security Administration (SSA)
US Public DomainNational baby name frequency statistics and rankings originate from the United States Social Security Administration, Office of the Chief Actuary (https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/). As a work of the United States Government, this raw demographic data is in the public domain within the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
2. Wiktionary (Wikimedia Foundation)
CC BY-SA 4.0Certain linguistic etymologies and historical language classifications incorporate content from the volunteer contributors of Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/), licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Excerpted and adapted content is shared under these same terms.
3. Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (CMUdict)
BSD 2-Clause LicensePhonetic transcriptions utilize the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary developed by the Speech Group at Carnegie Mellon University.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the copyright notice, this list of conditions and the disclaimer are retained.
4. Nurturepedia Open Baby Names Dataset
MIT LicenseTradition categorizations and cross-cultural root mappings incorporate data from the Nurturepedia open dataset (https://github.com/Nurturepedia/baby-names-dataset), released under the MIT License. Copyright © 2024 Nurturepedia.