Naamkaran

The naming tool market is crowded with generators that stop at clever. Naamkaran starts where those end. The workspace is a split pane — conversational generator on the left, viability panel on the right — and every path through it terminates in the same panel, so you can never generate 40 names and walk away without a single reality check unless you choose to. What genuinely separates it is the middle path, Smart pick. Flip it on and each candidate is checked as it is generated; you watch considering → domain check → brand search → score tick through in the chat, and names below 60 are quietly set aside. That's a meaningfully different UX from batch-generate-then-manually-test, because the filtering happens while you are still thinking about the idea rather than a day later. The two other modes are honest fallbacks: Generate names gives raw creative output for people who want range first, and Manual viability check is a plain "is this taken?" field for a name you brought with you. The viability math is documented rather than hand-waved: domain availability comes from RDAP with an IANA bootstrap and WHOIS fallback, brand uniqueness comes from grounded web search run from three angles — exact name, name plus category, similar spellings — and the results merge into a composite weighted 50% domain, 50% brand. Cited search evidence sits alongside the score, so you can look at what the model actually found rather than trusting a number. The per-TLD status breakdown saves the registrar-tab shuffle that eats an afternoon. Creative direction is stronger than most competitors. The ten styles are not cosmetic prompt skins — each one encodes a stated pattern (Action phrase: imperative verb plus object, the MakeMyTrip/BookMyShow shape; Gen Z cool: short and vowel-heavy; Twisted classic: familiar word with an altered spelling so registrars and trademark databases see something distinct; Single English word: evocative not literal, the Stripe/Notion/Bloom route). Being able to say "more Desi" or "avoid hyphens" mid-conversation without losing the thread matters more than it sounds when you are on your third batch. The model picker is unusually transparent: Gemini, MiniMax M3, Nemotron 3 Super 120B, GLM 5.2 and Gemma 4 31B/26B all appear by name, five of them marked free, with BYOK if you want your own key. That cuts both ways — output quality swings with your choice, and there is no single tuned backend to trust blindly. The honest limits: brand uniqueness is a grounded-web-search score and the vendor says so plainly, designed to catch obvious collisions, not to clear trademarks. Domain status can lag a real registration because it flows through RDAP and WHOIS. The composite is a ranking device, not a safety guarantee. And there is no registrar handoff, so the name you shortlist is still a name you have to go buy. Where it fits: a founder or PM with a brief and a deadline measured in days, who needs eight defensible finalists and the evidence to argue