How We Create Our Content

How pages are made

Every generator guide and sub-article on GenName.iostarts as an AI-assisted draft, built from a topic brief that sets the naming convention, the names to include, and the questions the page needs to answer. The draft covers the curated name list, the surrounding guide text, and the FAQ section. We don't name which AI tools or models we use, the same way most publishers don't name their word processor. What matters is what happens to a draft before it's published, which is the next section. For how the generator tool itself works, separately from this guide text, see How It Works.

What a human actually checks before publishing

Before a draft goes live, it's checked against a specific list, not a general read-through:

• Names presented as real are actually attested for that culture, language, or franchise — never a plausible-sounding name with a made-up meaning attached.
• Every factual, cultural, or historical claim has a source linked in the guide's Sources section; a number with no source behind it gets removed rather than kept.
• The FAQ answers questions people actually search for on that topic, not boilerplate copied across many pages.
• Wording repeated from other guides on the site is cut.

A validation script checks the page's markup and structure automatically — required sections present, links formatted correctly — before that content review even starts.

Right now, that review is done by one person: the site's creator. Guides published before September 2026 weren't written against this checklist, and we're working back through them progressively, highest-traffic pages first, rather than claiming they've all already been brought up to it.

Sources

A source, on this site, is something a reader could go check for themselves: reference works like Behind the Name, Wiktionary, or Britannica; a national statistics office for name-frequency data; an official or well-maintained fan wiki for a fictional world; a publisher's or game's own site for franchise names. Guides that make factual or cultural claims list two to four of these under a “Sources” heading at the end. Guides that are pure naming advice, with no factual claims attached, don't need a Sources section — and don't carry unsourced numbers either.

Corrections

Every guide has a “Report an error” link at the bottom that goes straight to an email. When a report comes in, it's checked against the sources already on the page — or new ones, if the claim needs them — the page is fixed, and the fix is noted at the end of the guide as an “Updated” line with the month it happened. We don't promise a fixed turnaround, but corrections are usually handled within a couple of weeks.

When a page's date changes

A guide's “Last updated” date moves only when something in the body actually changes — new names added, a section rewritten, a fact corrected. It doesn't move for a fixed link or a typo, because a date that changes with nothing to show for it isn't a useful signal to anyone. When the date does move, a one-line note is added to the end of the guide saying what changed.

Pages are also re-checked on a rolling basis independent of reader reports, through a monthly review that flags unsourced numbers, FAQ answers that no longer match what people search for, and text duplicated across multiple guides.

The name generators themselves

The guide text and curated name list on a page are the edited content described above. The generator tool on that same page works differently: when a visitor fills in the form and clicks generate, an AI model produces those specific names live, from the options they chose, and that individual output isn't reviewed by a person. What we review is the page's written guide and its example names — not every batch of names a visitor's own search generates.

Who is responsible

Content on GenName.io is reviewed by Thien, creator & maker of GenName.io. He's currently the only editorial reviewer, which is also why the checklist above is being applied to older pages progressively rather than all at once.