Nafnið is an Icelandic baby-name app. It includes all 4,950 given names and 214 middle names in the official register of approved names, with the four case forms from BÍN and the child's full name with a patronymic or matronymic.
Inside Nafnið
See it in action.
Features
What Nafnið does.
Swipe right to save a name and left to skip it. Partners can invite each other through iCloud or a message, and Nafnið shows the names you both like, with a name duel to rank them.
- 01
Every approved name
4,950 given names and 214 middle names, with naming-committee rulings for rejected names.
- 02
Swipe and save
Filter by girls', boys' or gender-neutral names and undo with one tap.
- 03
Correct declensions
All four cases from BÍN for 3,918 names, never generated.
- 04
The child's full name
Enter the parents' names to see it with -son, -dóttir or -bur.
- 05
Meanings and namesakes
Meanings of 1,160 names from their name elements, and about 1,880 well-known Icelanders.
- 06
Popularity
Names given to newborns from 2021 to 2025 and how many people carry each name today.
- 07
Choose together
Invite a partner, see the names you both like and rank them in a name duel.
- 08
Name of the day
A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with a new name each day.
Does Nafnið need an account or a connection? No. The name data ships with the app, and iCloud is used only to sync with a partner. The app is in Icelandic and English, collects no data and shows no ads.
- Platforms
- iOS
- Category
- Reference
- Languages
- Icelandic, English
- Built with
- SwiftUI, SQLite, CloudKit
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