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Any AI can suggest a name.This one makes sure it's yours.

name-still-tbd steers away from what already exists, learns from every name you rate, and checks each one for domains, trademarks and hidden meanings before you fall for it.

Free to try, no account needed.

Naming with Claude, Cursor or your own agent? Give it the same checks over MCP.

Most names don't survive the checks

  • Luminaa dozen companies already
  • Budgetlydomain long gone
  • Pennik
  • Fenneljust a common word
  • Mistwellmeans rubbish in German
  • Orvella
  • Clearsumtoo plain to trademark
  • Nexaalready an app
  • Tallowit’s animal fat
  • Quillet

19 ways a name can fail, checked in seconds

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Unique

  • Whether a business like yours is already out there under this name.

  • Whether a well-known company, brand or product already has the name.

  • Whether an iPhone or Mac app is already called this.

  • Whether a company is already registered under the name.

  • Whether Android apps, games, podcasts, bands or books already use it.

  • How common the word already is, and how much it would have to compete with.

  • Whether it's easy to say, spell and remember, how strong a trademark it makes, and what AI assistants already link it to.

Clean

  • Whether an offensive word or awkward reading hides inside the name or domain.

  • What it means in other languages and in slang.

  • Whether it's tied to bad press, sanctions, crypto tokens or medicines.

Free

  • Which domains you can still register.

  • What's behind the domains that are taken: a real business, a parked page, or one for sale.

  • Whether a domain carries baggage from a past owner, like spam or malware.

  • Whether the GitHub name is free.

  • Whether the npm package name is free.

  • Whether the Python package name is free.

  • Whether the name is free on other developer registries.

  • Which social handles are still free.

Ownable

  • Whether someone already holds a trademark on it, in the EU, US and 75+ other offices.

Steer it

You steer. It follows.

A chatbot gets one prompt and guesses. Here you hold the controls: say what you like and why, point it in a direction, weight every naming style, set hard limits. Every change goes into the next request, and a name you rule out never comes back.

Thumbs, with a reason
Like or dislike any name and add a word on why. The reason weighs more than the verdict.
Direction for the batch
“Shorter”, “less techy”, “more like Tolla”. Plain words, followed closely.
Style weights
From never to favourite, for each of the 15 naming styles.
Hard limits
Themes to draw from, markets it must work in, a maximum length, one word or several.

Direction

Styles

Invented word
Real word
Suffix brand

Limits

  • BudgetlySuffix brand

  • ClearCoinCompound

  • LedgerlySuffix brand

  • MintpathCompound

  • FennelReal word

Try any control. The list answers.

Illustration with a fixed set of names. The studio generates new ones.

For agents

Your agent suggests. Now it can check.

Left alone, an agent offers names it can't verify and repeats what other agents say. Over MCP it gets fresh candidates that skip what it has already shown, passes your likes, dislikes and reasons on as steering, and runs the full check to drop the ones that don't work before you ever see them. Same credits, same checks as the studio.

# Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http name-still-tbd \
  https://name-still-tbd.com/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
Read the docs
agent session

youName my calm budgeting app for freelancers. Shorter, and nothing literal like Budgetly.

→ generate_names { exclude: ["Lumina", …], nameNotes: { Budgetly: "too literal" }, steering: ["shorter"] }

← 12 new candidates

→ check_availability { name: "Budgetly" }

← taken .com .io .ai · @budgetly · 3 trademarks

→ check_availability { name: "Pennik" }

← available .com .io .ai · handles · Unknown to AI · Fanciful

agentDropped 9 that were taken or already known. Pennik works: .com and handles are free, no conflicting trademarks, and no AI assistant links it to anything yet.

Illustration.

15 naming styles

Lean in, or rule out

Models drift toward the same few styles. Move each one toward what you favour and away from what you don't, and the batch follows. Neutral is a fine answer.

Real word

Apple, Slack

Invented word

Kodak, Xerox

Compound

Facebook, YouTube

Portmanteau

Pinterest, Instagram

Altered spelling

Lyft, Flickr

Latin / Greek roots

Volvo, Nike

Suffix brand

Shopify, Grammarly

Prefix brand

GoPro, HeyMarvin

Descriptive

General Electric, Booking

Metaphor / evocative

Amazon, Patagonia

Personal name

Oscar, Wendy's

Acronym / initials

IBM, BMW

Very short

Uber, Zoom

Playful / quirky

Google, Yahoo

Numbers

7-Eleven, 3M

Drag a style to another lane, or focus it and use the arrow keys. Illustration of the style weights in the studio.

Pricing

Free to start

Plans and credit packs
3credits a day
Without an account. Enough for a first list.
25credits a week
With a free account. About 250 names.
150credits a week
On Pro, for $6.99 a month. For naming often.

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