New Zealand Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Built on 3 October 2026 from three public files of New Zealand's registrar of births (Births, Deaths and Marriages, Department of Internal Affairs), published on the government's SmartStart site and read that day: the top 100 girls' names and the top 100 boys' names for each year from 1954 to 2025 (https://smartstart.services.govt.nz/assets/files/Top-100-girls-names.pdf and https://smartstart.services.govt.nz/assets/files/Top-100-boys-names.pdf) and the top 10 Māori baby names for girls and for boys in four yearly lists, 2022-2023 to 2025-2026 (https://smartstart.services.govt.nz/assets/files/Top-10-Māori-baby-names-2022-2026.pdf). The list holds: (a) the 100 girls' names and the 100 boys' names of the 2025 lists, all of them; (b) every name on the four Māori lists, 26 names, under the first spelling the registrar prints, with the other spellings it counts together (Maia, Māia, Te Māia) on the card; (c) every name that stood on a yearly top 100 between 1954 and 2024, is not on the 2025 list, and is not on this site's own page of girls' names or of boys' names from United States records when the list was built: 93 girls' and 58 boys' names. Groups a and b are whole; group c is not, and names such as Susan and Peter are left off by that rule. 364 names in all; a name that is on more than one of these lists is one card that carries each fact. Nine cards also state what the tables show for the other sex or for the general top 100, which rule c alone would leave off (Ashley, Bailey, Brooklyn, Charlie, Kai, Kelly, Kim, Quinn, Shannon); those cards stay under the one name type. A year is counted once: the 1988 boys' table prints Michael twice and the 2023 table not at all, so Michael stands at 71 of 72 years. A card gives a band (top 10, top 50, top 100) and the years a name was on the list, counted by us from the tables; no number of babies is printed, because we could not open the site's terms of use. The top 100 tables count each spelling by itself. For 22 of the 26 names on the Māori lists the card adds the word that Te Aka Māori Dictionary (https://maoridictionary.co.nz, read the same day) lists under that spelling, with or without macrons, restated in a few words. That is the dictionary's word; it is not a statement of what any family means by the name, and the four names with no such line (or with a word that is plainly another one) say nothing. Three names stood only on the first Māori list, 2022 to 2023, and their cards say so. No speaker of Māori has read the list. Licence: Names and their order: Births, Deaths and Marriages, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, as published on SmartStart (smartstart.services.govt.nz); used as bands, with credit. Words and their senses: Te Aka Māori Dictionary, restated in our own words with a link. The counting of years, the grouping and the wording of the cards are our own work.