Building SEO-Friendly Letter Pages for a Name Database

One of the highest-traffic features on BabyNamePick is our letter-based browsing. Each letter of the alphabet gets its own page — A names , B names , all the way to Z. Why Letter Pages Work for SEO "Baby names starting with [letter]" is a high-volume search pattern. Parents often have a letter preference — matching siblings, family traditions, or just personal taste. These pages capture that intent directly. Each letter page on BabyNamePick includes: All names starting with that letter, grouped by gender Origin distribution (how many Celtic, Latin, Greek names, etc.) Quick links to related blog posts like B names guide Structured data for rich search results The Technical Implementation We use Next.js generateStaticParams to create all 26 pages at build time: export async function generateStaticParams () { return ' abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ' . split ( '' ) . map ( letter => ({ letter })); } Each page pulls from our central names database and filters client-side for instant interactiv