About the work

A closer look.

Send me one name. It can be yours, a child's, a pet's, a business you are starting, a character, a place. I search real records and real maps, not name-generator sites, and I send back a short brief: what the name actually is or was, where it comes from, a real place or person that carried it, and how it moved to you. I did this to my own name first; that is why the shop exists. Two days, one revision, sources included. If there is no real ground under the name, the brief says so.