Licences
Nameling is built from public records, shared words and open-source software. Thank you to everyone behind them.
Name records
- Baby names in England and Wales, Office for National Statistics; Babies' first names, National Records of Scotland; Baby names, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Popular Baby Names, US Social Security Administration: a work of the US government, in the public domain.
Ranks, trends and totals across countries are worked out by Nameling from these records. Nameling is independent, and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency or the US Social Security Administration.
Meanings
- Meanings marked as from Wiktionary come from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0, read through kaikki.org's extract of it. Each one links to its Wiktionary entry.
- Which language a name comes from is sometimes checked against Wikidata (CC0).
Typefaces
- Literata, copyright 2017 The Literata Project Authors, and Source Sans 3, copyright 2010-2020 Adobe, with Reserved Font Name "Source", both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Software
Each of these is used under the MIT License, which asks that its copyright notice and licence travel with it:
- Preact, copyright 2015-present Jason Miller.
- Capacitor and its plugins (the iPhone app), copyright 2017-present Drifty Co. and 2020-present Ionic.
- QR Code generator library, copyright Project Nayuki.
- Netlify Blobs (the pairing server), copyright Netlify.
The MIT License
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.