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BabyZoink: semi-unique name generator
- ivey 17y agoThey should do one for startups.
- fnid 17y agoThere are plenty.
- ubernostrum 17y agoFor better results, see "Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing": http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/ http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/
- iamwil 17y agoSo why is this interesting?
- bugs 17y agoBecause there wasn't enough annoying parents who think they cleverly named their child.
- joshsharp 17y agoMost of the names it comes up with are anywhere between stupid and downright abysmal. "Laylord"? Yikes. It even recommended "Dad", that'd be an interesting name for a child.
- jluxenberg 17y agoReminds me of this article on The Daily WTF, it's the same concept applied to database IDs: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-automated-curse-generator.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-automated-curse-generato...
- ramanujan 17y agoUnless they had severe space constraints, they should have used multiple words from an English lexicon rather than Markov chains, kind of like Amazon's payphrases.
- jfarmer 17y agoGlorious Pinetrees await.
- woadwarrior01 17y agoThere's an RFC for that. RFC-1751 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1751.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1751.html
- jrnkntl 17y agoI can't tell if these names are for girls, boys or both.
- Ysx 17y agoClintina for a girl, Fleen for a boy.
- sysctl 17y agoBabyZoink is the place to come for unusual and new names. If you want your child to be beaten repeatedly at school, yes.