Bris & Baby Naming Speech Writer — Honor the Name | Shpiel
Baby & Bris

Eight days old, and they already need a speechwriter.

The bris or naming speech has one beautiful job: tell the story of the name. Shpiel writes it from your answers, who the name honors and what you hope they inherit, in the time it takes the baby to nap.

Write my naming speech →
Preview before paying · Money Back Guarantee
See it in action

The story of the name, written and ready to edit.

Tell Shpiel who the name honors and what you hope the baby carries, and it drafts a complete bris or naming speech in your voice. Refine any line right in the editor, warming a memory, getting the Hebrew right, until the words are unmistakably yours.

The Shpiel editor showing a drafted Jewish baby naming speech ready to edit line by line

"We're an interfaith family and I always feel like I'm doing Jewish wrong. Shpiel let me choose exactly how observant to make our son's baby naming, and the words finally felt like ours."

Jess & Mark T.Jess & Mark T. · Baby naming · Interfaith

"We named her for my mother. Shpiel helped me say who my mother was in a way the grandchildren will actually remember."

Rivka B.Rivka B. · Grandmother

"Sleep-deprived and terrified of public speaking, I had a speech I was proud of before the bagels came out."

Adam L.Adam L. · New father, bris

"We split it: I told the story of the name, my wife gave the blessing. It fit together like we'd rehearsed for weeks."

Dana & Josh P.Dana & Josh P. · Baby naming
How it works

Three steps. About five minutes.

Step 1
Tell us about the moment

Tell us the name and its story.

Who it honors, what it means, why it called to you.

→
Step 2
We do the writing

Shpiel writes the speech.

The name, the person behind it, the hope, the blessing — the formula every great naming speech follows, in your tradition.

→
Step 3
Make it yours

Make it yours.

Edit between feedings. Done in one nap.

Not generic AI

This speech carries a name across generations. It shouldn't come from a template.

Ashkenazi families name for those who've passed; Sephardi families often honor the living; interfaith families explain it all warmly to half the room. Shpiel knows the difference, and writes a speech that hands something of Grandpa Yosef to your child, with grief and joy held together the way the tradition intends.

Who's speaking?

Written for whoever stands up.

Parents (together or split) Grandparent Godparent / Kvatter
A sample line

Same baby. Two very different speeches.

Generic AI

"Mazel tov on the new arrival! A baby is a blessing and a bundle of joy. May this child grow up healthy and happy, surrounded by love and family. We are so thrilled to welcome this little one into the world. What a special day for everyone!"

Could be any baby, any name, any family
Your Shpiel speech

"We named her Miriam, for my grandmother, who never once entered a room quietly in ninety-one years. We couldn't give our daughter her laugh. But we could give her the name, and the job that comes with it: fill every room you walk into."

✦ The real name, the real person, only about her

Questions, answered.

Like you, because the raw material is yours. Shpiel builds the speech out of the specific stories and details you share, not a template with your names dropped in, and you can reshape any line until it reads the way you would actually say it.
Yes. Shpiel uses correct Hebrew, transliterated and translated, and follows the naming customs for a bris or a baby naming in your tradition, rather than inventing a ritual or reaching for the wrong blessing.
Yes. Your tradition setting, from secular through Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Chabad, changes the sources, the amount of Hebrew, and the tone, so the same simcha can read five different ways.
Yes. You do not need to write well, you need to remember well. Half a sentence like "she practiced her haftarah in the car" is enough for Shpiel to build something real. Rough notes work better than polished paragraphs.
Yes. What you share is used only to write your speech. We do not sell your data, and we do not train public models on your family's stories.
The structure is the same; the ceremony varies more by community (simchat bat, brit bat, or a naming at a Torah service). Shpiel adjusts to whichever you're having.
Yes — a popular choice. Tell Shpiel and it drafts two short parts: one tells the story of the name, the other gives the blessing.
No — Shpiel can write the speech so every custom is explained as it goes, which guests consistently love.
A few questions, a draft in about five minutes. Realistically the only thing this week you can finish in one nap. Free to write and preview; $29 to unlock the final version.

Want the full how-to? Read: What to Say at a Bris or Baby Naming.

The last thing left

The kiddush is ordered.
The speech is the last thing left.

Write my naming speech →
Preview before paying · Money Back Guarantee