One Baby in 8 Has a Name That Hides a Word
Shuffle the letters of Liam and you get "lima". It is not a one-off. In 2025, 13.0% of American babies got a name that hides an everyday word.
Every name is a little box of letters. Shake it a bit and a word sometimes falls out. Often sweet, sometimes surprising, and now and then a little less flattering.
The Most Given Names That Hide a Word
Some Just Read Backwards
No shuffling needed, just flip them.
Between Us
Nobody picks a name for the word it hides, we promise. Still, Liam turning into "lima" is the kind of detail that gets a laugh at a family dinner.
Common Questions
How Do I Find the Word Hidden in My Name?
Type it into the Anagrammio solver. It lists every word and every name made from exactly the same letters.
Why Are Some Words Missing?
We only keep words everyone knows, among the 30,000 most frequent in English. Rare terms, inflected forms and rude words are left out.
How We Count
A word counts when it is among the 30,000 most frequent words in English, is a base form rather than an inflection, and is not itself a common first name.
Source Social Security Administration, national baby names file, births 1880 to 2025. Names with at least 500 births in total.
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