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Baby Names API

The Baby Names API provides tens of thousands of unique and popular baby names for boys, girls, and gender-neutral names.

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/v1/babynames GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/babynames

Returns 10 baby name results.

Parameters

  • gender  optional

    Baby name gender. Must be one of the following: boy, girl, neutral

  • popular_only  optional

    Whether to only return popular (top 10%) of names. Must be either true or false. If unset, default is true.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Response

Returns an array of baby name strings.

Sample Request Live Demo!

gender

Try this API endpoint with all available parameters in our API playground

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/babynames?gender=neutral

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [ "Quinn", "Mackenzie", "Cody", "Kelly", "Duncan", "Shelby", "Shane", "Zane", "Jordan", "Lake" ]

Code Examples

1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/babynames?gender=boy" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.