Every name in Namey carries one or more meanings — brave, gift of God, from the sea — and we've written before about the meanings themselves. This time we're not mapping the names. We're mapping the meanings.
The embedding groups 3,740 distinct meanings into 30 themes. The largest by far is Gift / Blessing / Divine — 645 meanings carried by 41,692 names — followed by Bright / Light / Beloved (324 meanings, 35,343 names) and Strong / Brave / Warrior (408 meanings, 27,470 names).
Among individual meanings, Noble is carried by the most names (3,139), just ahead of Strong (3,124), Brave (2,531), Bright (2,082) and Gift (1,971). Strong and Brave land at almost exactly the same coordinates on the map — nothing told the model they were related; the embedding put them there on its own.
The full, interactive version of this map lives permanently in the Meaning Clusters section of the meanings page.
This is our fourth pass at mapping how names relate to each other. We've previously clustered names by embedding similarity, by adding list membership, and by enhanced embeddings in three dimensions. If you'd like the background on how Namey sources meanings in the first place, read our earlier post on name meanings.