About namera
Namera is a command-line naming research tool for founders and teams evaluating candidate business names. It checks domains, trademarks, and social handles, then generates or ranks names using configurable scoring profiles; it also provides two MCP tools for agents.
Key features
- 01Check domain availability
- 02Screen USPTO trademark records
- 03Check GitHub, Twitter/X, and Instagram handles
- 04Generate name permutations
- 05Rank candidates with scoring profiles
- 06Output tables, JSON, NDJSON, or CSV
Use cases
- 01Screen startup name candidates
- 02Find domain and trademark conflicts
- 03Generate and rank names for a niche
MCP support
Namera's MCP server exposes `check_name` for a single name's domain, trademark, and social checks, and `find_names` to assess, score, and rank multiple candidates with business context.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMENamera
Name your startup like a YC founder. Check domain availability, screen for trademark conflicts, and rank everything — so you pick from the best options, not all of them.

Install
uvx namera
Or install persistently:
uv tool install namera
Install from source
git clone https://github.com/solozerolabs/Namera.git
cd Namera
pip install -e .
uvx namera find --context '{"name_candidates": ["voxly", "dataprime"], "niche": "fintech"}'
Ranked results
┌──────┬────────────┬───────┬────────────┬───────────┐
│ Rank │ Name │ Score │ .com │ Trademark │
├──────┼────────────┼───────┼────────────┼───────────┤
│ 1 │ getnamera │ 92 │ Available │ Clear │
│ 2 │ trynamera │ 87 │ Available │ Clear │
│ 3 │ namerahq │ 84 │ Available │ Clear │
└──────┴────────────┴───────┴────────────┴───────────┘
Features
- Domain availability — DNS, RDAP, and optional pricing lookups
- Trademark screening — 12.7M USPTO trademarks, exact + fuzzy matching
- Social handle checks — GitHub, Twitter/X, Instagram
- Name generation — permutations with prefixes, suffixes, and TLD combinations
- Weighted ranking — composite scores from availability, trademark safety, length, and pronounceability
- Scoring profiles — built-in presets for fintech, SaaS, consumer, developer tools
- 20 TLD presets —
popular,tech,startup,fintech,geo-us,geo-eu, and more - Multiple output formats — table, JSON, NDJSON, CSV
- Agent-friendly — auto-detects piped output and switches to JSON. Designed for Claude Code, Codex, and other AI agents
- Fast — concurrent async checks with caching
Usage
Check a name
namera search voxly
namera domain voxly --tlds com,io,ai
namera trademark voxly
namera whois voxly.com
Discover names with business context
# Interactive wizard
namera find
# Structured input (for agents and scripts)
namera find --context '{"name_candidates": ["voxly", "dataprime"], "description": "fintech analytics platform", "niche": "finance"}'
# Only available names, as JSON
namera find --context '...' --only-available --json
Generate name permutations
namera compose namera --common-prefixes --common-suffixes --check
namera compose namera --prefix get --prefix try --suffix hq --tlds com,io
Rank candidates
namera rank voxly dataprime nimbus
namera rank voxly dataprime --profile fintech --json
TLD presets
# See all presets
namera presets
# Use a preset anywhere TLDs are accepted
namera compose voxly --tlds startup --check
namera domain voxly --tlds tech
MCP Server (for AI agents)
Namera ships as an MCP server so AI agents (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex) can call it directly.
pip install namera[mcp]
namera-mcp
Add to Claude Desktop (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"namera": {
"command": "namera-mcp",
"args": []
}
}
}
Two tools are exposed:
check_name— check a single name across domain, trademark, and socialfind_names— check multiple candidates with business context, score, and rank them
Scoring Profiles
| Profile | Optimizes for |
|---|---|
default | Balanced — domain, trademark, length, pronounceability |
startup-saas | .com availability (hard filter: must have .com) |
fintech | Trademark safety (hard filter: must be trademark-clear) |
consumer | Social handles + pronounceability |
developer-tools | .dev/.io TLDs + GitHub handle |
Development
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/ -v
ruff check src/ tests/
License
MIT
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