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behindthename.com had about 3.62M visits in September 2026, down 9.66% from August; most traffic is search.

The Meaning and History of First Names - Behind the Name

Website traffic

How much traffic does behindthename.com get?

3.62M

-9.66%MoMEstimated monthly visits
7894.33M2.89M1.44M0
Global rank

11,335

Country rank · United States

4,198

Category rank · Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

17

Average visit duration

03:44

Pages per visit

6.35

Bounce rate

41.66%

Domain age

27 years

Search share

59.0%

Sources

Where does behindthename.com's traffic come from?

  • Search
    59.0%
  • Direct
    31.9%
  • Social
    4.7%
  • Referrals
    3.1%
  • Email
    0.8%
  • Generative AI
    0.4%
  • Display ads
    0.1%
  • Paid search
    0.0%
  • Other
    0.0%

Regions

Which countries visit behindthename.com?

  • United States
    53.7%
  • United Kingdom
    6.1%
  • Canada
    4.6%
  • Puerto Rico
    3.7%
  • Australia
    3.0%

See how behindthename.com compares with the most visited websites in the world, the fastest growing websites and sites gaining organic search traffic.

Search visibility

What keywords send traffic to behindthename.com?

Keyword samples

Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
  1. random name generatorBRAND121.16K138.59K87%
  2. behind the nameBRAND87.9K45.07K195%
  3. name generatorBRAND51K162.2K31%
  4. name meaningsBRAND7.93K4.79K166%
  5. japanese namesBRAND5.73K41.99K14%

Keyword rankings

Keyword rankings

Example · google.comUnited States · English

86.4M

Search estimate

New 1 · Up 2

Ranking keywords
12,400
Landing pages
4
Search competitors
4
AI citations
2
PositionEstimated visits
  1. google#142M
  2. gmail#118.2M
  3. google maps#19.4M
  4. google drive#14.1M

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Baidu rank

Site profile

What does behindthename.com show publicly?

  • HTTP 200
  • Email authentication
  • Hosting ASN
HTTP
200
Page size
13.9 KiB
Hosting
CLOUDFLARENET · AS13335
Email authentication
SPF · DMARC reject
TLS
TLSv1.3 · 44 days
Page and SEO
Title
The Meaning and History of First Names - Behind the Name
Description
Find the meaning, history and popularity of given names from around the world. Get ideas for baby names or discover your own name's history.
Cross-origin redirect
Yes
Word count
301
Internal / external links
94 / 0
Canonical
https://www.behindthename.com/
Language
en
H1 / H2
2 / 1
Images missing alt
0 / 12
Technology and tracking2 tracking
Technology clues
jQuery · Cloudflare
Tracking clues
Google Tag Manager · Google Analytics
External script hosts
ajax.googleapis.com · googletagmanager.com · qd.admetricspro.com
Server
cloudflare
Security headers
3 / 6
HSTS / CSP
CSP
Cookie
2(Secure 2)
Email and DNS securitySet
SPF
Set
DMARC
Set · reject
DKIM selectors
google
Mail stack
Google Workspace
IPv6
AAAA present
Site verification TXT
Google
SOA
amir.ns.cloudflare.com
NS
amir.ns.cloudflare.com. · thea.ns.cloudflare.com.
MX
1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 2 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. · 3 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. · 1 more
Hosting and networkAS13335
A
172.67.71.97 · 104.26.15.158 · 104.26.14.158
AAAA
2606:4700:20::ac43:4761 · 2606:4700:20::681a:e9e · 2606:4700:20::681a:f9e
Hosting ASN
AS13335 · 172.67.64.0/20
Hosting organization
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting country
US
BGP announcement
Yes
TLS
TLSv1.3 · Verified
Certificate issuer
WE1
Certificate remaining
44 days
Certificate SAN
DNS:behindthename.com · DNS:*.behindthename.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
Robots.txt
200
Global Disallow /
No
AI explicitly disallowed
0
AI explicitly allowed
0
Well-known public paths1 hits
Present / checked
1 / 5
/ads.txt
Present · 28.2 KiB

Website information

When was behindthename.com registered?

Domain
behindthename.com
Registration status
Domain registered
Registered
1999-12-23
Registrar
Network Solutions, LLC
Expires
2033-12-23
Domain age
27 years
DNSSEC
No
Registry status
client transfer prohibited

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What's in this report

The report starts with a whole-site monthly visit estimate. Search visibility and public site facts follow when they exist.

  • Website traffic is a modeled whole-site estimate, with a source, observation period and confidence.
  • Search visibility is ranking keywords and search traffic, listed separately from whole-site visits.
  • Missing or partial values stay marked in the report.