# Baby Name Guide

> Choosing a name.

Bicycle Guide reconciles the best books on a topic into one sourced guide and shows where they disagree.

Categories below are subject shelves: each groups guides that answer one kind of work or life problem. A guide's link points at its canonical home, which may be a persona front rather than this domain.

Naming is one decision you make once, under pressure, with everyone offering an opinion. This is the travel-guide version: we read the research on how names actually land, the traditions behind them, and what parents wish they had known — honest about where the evidence is thin, and made to leave you confident rather than second-guessing.

Every guide linked below has a main guide free to read. Some clearly mark additional paid sections, tools and downloads. Guide pages include source information. Links point at each guide's own canonical home, which is not always this domain.

## Family & Life
- [The Bicycle Guide to Choose a Baby Name](https://babyname.guide/guides/baby-naming): Child Livability & Positive Name Experience becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.

## Capabilities
- The skills, knowledge, abilities and dispositions taught across multiple guides, joined to the books that ground them and the jobs that require them — see https://babyname.guide/capabilities
- [Parental Meaning-Seeking Motivation](https://babyname.guide/capabilities/ce_parental-meaning-seeking-motivation): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 10 books.

## Disagreements
- [Where the books disagree](https://babyname.guide/disagreements): 0 named disagreements with cited books on both sides — tension name, poles, and sources only.

## Books
- [Book library](https://babyname.guide/books): the source corpus every guide cites, browsable by subject.

## More
- [Full guide index](https://babyname.guide/guides): every guide this site serves, organized by shelf.
- [Sitemap](https://babyname.guide/sitemap.xml): every URL on this site, for a complete crawl.
- [MCP server](https://babyname.guide/mcp): remote Model Context Protocol access to the guide registry, taxonomy and capability spine — read-only, no auth required. Also served at https://babyname.guide/api/mcp.
- [MCP well-known descriptor](https://babyname.guide/.well-known/mcp.json): the same transport + tool list as machine-readable JSON, for a probe that checks .well-known before opening a session.
- [OpenAPI](https://babyname.guide/openapi.json): the same registry as a REST machine-readable spec.