Random Middle Name Generator

How this list was compiled: A list by a written rule, built on 3 October 2026. The names and their births come from the US Social Security Administration's national baby names file (names.zip, linked from https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html), which lists first names given to five or more children of a sex in a year; ssa.gov refuses scripted downloads, so the official file was read from the Internet Archive's copy captured 2026-09-18 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260918154125/https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip, files for 1880 to 2025). The administration records first names only: nothing here says a name is common as a middle name. The syllables and the stressed syllable are those of the first pronunciation listed for the spelling in the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict, read the same day), an American English dictionary. A name is listed only when a second reference agrees: its English given-name entry on English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, read the same day) has a written pronunciation with the same number of syllables and the same stressed syllable; each card carries that entry's address. Of 984 names tried, 471 agree, 20 differ and 493 have no entry, no given-name sense or no written pronunciation there. From the names that agree the list takes the 120 with the most births in 2025, girls and boys together (down to 3,864 births), and below them every name given to at least 100 girls or 100 boys in 2025 that this site's girl name page, boy name page and book character name page do not hold, less 16 names left for smaller name lists of this site that already hold them: 135 more. Said and Isis were taken out by hand, and Ishmael because its dictionary entry gives a three-syllable reading first. A card says 'girls and boys' when at least 50 of each were given the name in 2025 and the smaller group is at least 10 in 100 of its births; otherwise it names the sex with more births. Other languages say some of these names differently; the card gives the American English reading only. Licence: Births: public domain, a work of the US federal government (17 U.S.C. 105). Syllables and stress: the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary, free to use with its notice kept (BSD-style license). English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) was used as a check. The grouping is our own work.