Last updated: 2 November 2026
Calmvivo is run by two people, so email reaches the people who write the pages rather than a support queue. Every message sent through the form below is read. This page explains which route to use for what, so that a correction does not sit behind a partnership enquiry.
Our Communication Philosophy
Naming is a decision people make once and live with, which is why we treat messages about it as substantive rather than as support tickets. A question about why a name was built the way it was is a fair question, and it gets an answer that engages with the name rather than a link to a help page.
In practice that means three things. We reply to the specific point raised rather than the general topic. We say when we do not know. And we do not defend a page that is wrong — if your correction holds, the page changes and the date at the top changes with it.
The one thing we cannot do by email is clear a name for you. No message we send constitutes legal advice, and no reply should be read as confirmation that a name is available.
Scenario-Specific Inquiries
If you are stuck on a particular naming problem, describe the problem rather than the category. What are you naming, what has to be true about the name — length, sound, culture, register, whether it has to be spellable over the phone — and what have you already rejected, and why. That is usually enough for a useful reply.
Business Names
Naming a company, a product or a sub-brand? Tell us the sector, the size of the company, and whether the name has to survive being said aloud in a sales call. Brand naming constraints are usually commercial rather than linguistic, and knowing them changes the advice.
If you are choosing between two finalists, send both and say what you are worried about. A second reading of a shortlist is a more useful request than a request for more names.
People Names
Character names, pen names, names for a game, names for a child. For characters, tell us the period, the place and the register the story is written in — a name that is right for a Victorian novel is usually wrong for a near-future one. For a name you intend to use yourself, tell us the country it has to work in, because a form that reads as ordinary in one language can read as comic in another.
We do not advise on the legal or cultural acceptability of a name for a child. That is a family decision and, in some jurisdictions, a registrar’s decision.
Fantasy Names
Tell us the setting and the rule the phonology follows. Invented languages are internally consistent or they are noise, and the difference shows up the moment a name is read aloud at a table. If you have a pronunciation in mind, send it — the note can be written against your pronunciation rather than a guess.
Creative Names
Usernames, handles, band names, shop names, pet names. Here the constraint is usually availability rather than taste, so tell us where the name has to be available and roughly how many characters you have to work with. We do not check availability, but we can tell you which constructions are more likely to be taken.
Linguistic & Cultural Sensitivity Feedback
If a generated name reads as wrong, offensive or simply not credible to a speaker of the language it claims to come from, that is a report we want, and it takes priority over most other messages. A note that describes a form as authentic when it is not is a factual error, and it is the kind of error a non-speaker cannot catch.
Send the name, the page, and what is wrong with it — a wrong morpheme, a meaning that does not exist, a form that belongs to a different tradition, a name that carries a significance a stranger should not borrow. If you can point to a source, include it; the note will be rewritten against it.
We would rather remove a name than keep a plausible-looking one we cannot defend. Names that belong to closed practices are flagged or dropped, and a report that identifies one is acted on quickly.
Technical Algorithm Feedback
If a generator fails, returns nothing, returns something that is not a name, or produces the same broken entry twice in one set, tell us which page, which browser, and what happened. A screenshot helps more than a description. If the tool displayed an error message, send the exact wording.
The generators run on our server, so most failures are reproducible from the page address alone. What we cannot see is anything that breaks between the server and your screen: a blocked script, an extension, a corporate proxy, a content blocker that treats the generator request as an ad. That is why the browser matters.
Suggestions about the filters are equally welcome — a chip that returns nothing, a category that overlaps another, a search that silently matches the wrong field. Because the pages are generated from a template, a fix to one applies to every page built the same way.
API & B2B Partnerships
The site does not currently offer a public API, and we would rather say so than leave an enquiry unanswered. If you have a genuine bulk or integration need — a studio naming a cast, an agency naming a portfolio, a tool that would embed a generator — describe the volume, the constraints and the timeline, and we will tell you honestly whether it is something we can support.
What we will not do is sell placement. No one can pay to appear in a name list, to have a competitor removed from one, or to have a tool ranked above another. Enquiries that assume otherwise are declined rather than negotiated.
Editorial & Methodology Consultation
Questions about method — why a category is built the way it is, why a set was cached rather than regenerated, why a particular tradition is described in a particular way — go to the people who write the pages. Mara Ellison covers the fantasy and creative categories, working from what a name does to a reader in the first line. Daniel Reyes covers business and people names, working from what a name has to survive once it is printed on something.
Both review the other’s categories before a page goes live, so either can answer a question about the site as a whole. Neither will give an opinion on whether a specific name is legally available, because that is not a judgement the site is qualified to make.
Data Ethics & Privacy Commitment
The site has no accounts, no login and no session. Descriptions you type are sent to our server to produce a set of names, and the set is cached against the description so that the same wording returns the same result later. That cache holds the description and the names, and nothing that identifies you.
Messages sent through the form are kept so that we have a record if the same issue comes up again. They are not added to a mailing list, not used to build a profile, and not passed to anyone else. We do not send marketing email and there is no newsletter to unsubscribe from.
To ask what we hold about you, to request a copy, a correction or a deletion, write to [email protected] with “Privacy request” in the subject line. Because there are no accounts, most requests resolve quickly, and the honest answer is sometimes that we hold nothing that relates to you. The Privacy Policy sets this out in full.
Transparency & Independence
The site is paid for by display advertising served by Google. That is the entire commercial relationship: we do not take payment for inclusion, we do not run sponsored tools, and we do not accept payment to describe a name more favourably than it deserves.
Editorial decisions are made by the two people who write the site, and they are made on the basis of what the language does rather than on what would attract traffic. When a category has a thin pool of good material, it publishes fewer names rather than padding the list.
Analytics are cookieless and aggregate, which means we can see that a page was read and cannot see who read it. The Cookie Policy lists every cookie that can appear on the site and what sets it.
Legal & Trademark Boundaries
We do not provide legal or trademark advice, and we do not run clearance searches. Our role is creative generation; clearance is a separate professional service, and it is not one this site performs. For a name you intend to trade under, consult a qualified attorney in the relevant jurisdiction, or search the register yourself — in the United States, that is the USPTO’s trademark database.
Generated names are starting points. No message from us, and no page on this site, constitutes a warranty that a name is unused, unregistered or registrable. The Disclaimer sets out the position in full, including the limits of our liability.
Copyright complaints do not go through this form. The DMCA page explains what a valid notice must contain and where to send it. A notice that arrives through the contact form usually has to be sent again, which wastes your time.
Communication Guidelines
Expect an acknowledgement within 48 hours on business days and a substantive reply within two to three business days. Detailed enquiries about a specific name or page take longer, because answering them properly means reading the page.
Put a clear subject line on the message — “Fantasy generator feedback”, “Correction: wrong etymology on /x/”, “Privacy request”. It routes faster than a subject that describes a mood. If you have had no reply after five business days, send a follow-up; it is not rude, and occasionally a message does get missed.
We reserve the right to decline messages that are abusive, off-topic, or an attempt to sell a service. We do not answer requests to rank, review or link to a third-party product.
There is no phone support and no live chat. Email is the only channel, and it is read by the people who maintain the site.