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Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
- david422 5y agoYou might want to remove similar characters from your codes to share. For instance, is the first character in your app screenshot a zero or an oh? Also standardizing on capitals IMO would help.
- hamaluik 5y agoI considered it and maybe I still should, but ultimately I found when sending the sharing code I would just copy / paste it rather than type it in so for my needs it is fine. Wouldn’t be very much work at all though so I should probably just stop being lazy!
- indemnity 5y agoDon’t listen to the critics, well executed, and thanks for keeping it clean and focused. Would have loved this app when we were looking, but after two kids I hope we won’t need to use it ;)
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- antihero 5y agoThis looks lush. One request - a filter for genderless names would be amazing. I have no idea what my kids will want to identify as so having something gender neutral seems like a gift.
- hamaluik 5y agoThat's a good idea and should be fairly easy to add. You can currently disable the colour-based gendering of the app if desired but your suggestion would be a lot more useful.
- steren 5y agoGreat idea, is there a web version of the app?
- hamaluik 5y agoNo.. but its built using Dart / Flutter so it may be possible to publish as a web version (though I think you'd run into issues with the database backend).
- gnicholas 5y agoWish this existed years ago! It would be interesting if there were phonetic ways to filter names, for example: starts with consonant/vowel, has X syllables, ends with X letter(s). A more advanced version of this could be a system that detects phonetic/orthographic similarities between names that you do or don't like, and shows you an optimized list of names based on your apparent preferences.
- js2 5y agoFYI, see the usage note here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hone%20in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hone%20in The app itself seems to be oriented around viewing most popular names. It would be nice to have a way to view least popular as well.
- TheMagicHorsey 5y agoFlutter! Love it. I feel like Flutter today is like what Go was like in 2011. Its basically right on the cusp of being recognized as being the best programming tool for a specific use case. In Go's case it was making back-end services. In Flutter's case its building 2D client experiences (I say 2D, because I think Unity will probably have an edge in creating 3D experiences for a while).
- thaumasiotes 5y agoDid you integrate BehindTheName?
- hossbeast 5y agoI made the same kind of countdown app when my wife was pregnant in 2006.
- JordanJaye 5y agoIndian names too?
- unobatbayar 5y agoI always liked short names and I wish my parents named me so.
- 0dayz 5y agoA tip my parents and their parent(s) have done is to pick historical figures or characters from books.
- hamaluik 5y agoThis will be our second kid, and at least for us figuring out a name that we both love is hard. There are literally tons of baby-name apps out there, most of them more fully-featured and polished than Nom de Bébé and you should probably use one of those. However a lot of them include a disturbing amount of tracking or for any number of reasons just didn't work for my wife and I (bugs, subscriptions, lack of names, etc). So in continuing the tradition of "An app can be a home-cooked meal" [1], I built my own for us to use. You're welcome to use it too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22332629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22332629
- koolba 5y agoWhy an app rather than a static site deployed to something free like GitHub pages? Could even have the data in a repo to accept pull requests for new names.
- thatwasunusual 5y agoThis. Please don't create apps that shouldn't be apps.
- williamdclt 5y agoPlease do whatever the hell you want. There's a difference between asking a question, making a suggestion and shoving ideals down somebody's throat.
- thatwasunusual 5y ago> Please do whatever the hell you want. Indeed. Especially if you want to piss off potensial users/customers. > There's a difference between asking a question, making a suggestion and shoving ideals down somebody's throat. Unfortunately, the "ideal" for many is to have an app for their - well - app, or service, whatever it might be. Usually it's just a perfectly functioning responsive web service that is turned to a native app instead of just going for a hybrid app (at least to start with). In this specific case, there's is _absolutely no reason_ it should be provided as an app, at least not a native one. Because: The user already has everything installed on his phone to use the service; a browser. To me, _as a (potential) user_, having to install this app would have been showing something down my throat. To solve that problem, the developer could have created it as a responsive web application first, and maybe made an hybrid app, and then decided if it is worthwhile creating a native app. Why the desparate need to create native apps and have to maintain two totally different projects when there's no need to?
- sharemywin 5y agois it like Tinder for baby names?
- hamaluik 5y agolol, I guess. I've never used Tinder but I suppose it is a decent comparison.
- giarc 5y agoMy wife and I used a similar app for our second and third baby. It was helpful and we only matched on one name for our second kid, and that is indeed her name.
- ChrisKnott 5y agoThere is an app called Kinder that is this. You and partner both swipe names independently and it lets you know of any matches. It actually serves a social function of removing the factor of who's initial suggestion the name is.
- zaik 5y agoDo baby names swipe right on the parents?
- gus_massa 5y ago> Over 110,000 names from over a century of records Does it do something smart to filter the names? Because showing all of them is too much. Is there a third option or only heart vs thumb-down? Is there an option to show variants of spelling? All my children have names with the traditional Spanish spelling [Hi from Argentina!] but here it's somewhat common to use the English or Italian spelling too.
- hamaluik 5y agoYou can filter names by first letter, sex, and decade of popularity, as well as limit to the most popular N names in that list. No, only like / dislike. This was intentional for me, another app we tried had a "maybe" list that just filled up with names that I would never realistically go for. No easy way to show variants of spelling. Not something I needed, but I could definitely see that being helpful for others, and would be a good feature to add.
- zebnyc 5y agoWould be interesting if you could filter to include / exclude similar sounding names / syllables. When we had our kid, I had to come up with names and my wife would try to "break them"(think of every way in which some "mean kids" might twist the name to something else). For e.g. when I suggested Dakshith which is a very popular name in India, she countered "Do you really want other kids to call him "shi*?"
- Argher 5y agoLove the app, seems nicely functional - as feedback/bug report?, it doesn't look like the "Sex" filter works, at least not for the "Explore" mode.
- hamaluik 5y agoYea I purposefully made the explore mode keep al the names. Next release I’ll make sure to add a toggle on whether to apply the filters or not because in hindsight this is confusing.
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- jedimastert 5y agoMy wife and I have a game to spell out things with baby name initials (our last name starts with a T, which helps). We aren't tied to the idea, but it's sort of like an improv game, where constraints get the ideas flowing. We've learned a fair bit about what each of us do and don't like in a game
- hamaluik 5y agoThat sounds fun. Mostly we try to avoid names that would cause an unfortunate acronym, which definitely takes a few of the names we like off the list.
- prepend 5y agoNice looking app. There’s a whole series of apps that just boil down to nice UIs on a spreadsheet. Back in my day we had to use Google spreadsheets.
- hamaluik 5y agoThanks! I've found that the vast majority of software I get hired to write boils down to just a frontend to a database / spreadsheet, and the rest is just window dressing.
- prepend 5y agoIn the 90s there were a bunch of db/programming products like clarion, fox pro, and eventually access. It was surprising the stuff people made with them. The cost model for stuff like airtable doesn’t lend itself to the same products.
- seszett 5y agoDespite the French name for the app, this seems to only use English names.
- hamaluik 5y agoUS-census names actually. As for the name of the app.. well names are hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- hiccuphippo 5y agoMaybe someone should do an app-name app.
- scandox 5y agoThere was a product I ran across in the noughties: Razorname. Its tag line was "So good it named itself". Doesn't seem to be around any more.
- lefrancais 5y agoif you look for french names I've done this dashboard [1] that shows popularity of french names in France from 1900 to today. It is very slow to load, due to database loading and because heroku is free I guess. Github (french) repo is [2] [1]: https://dash-naissances.herokuapp.com/ https://dash-naissances.herokuapp.com/ [2]: https://github.com/Elie-B/dash-naissances https://github.com/Elie-B/dash-naissances
- disintegore 5y agoFork it, add a bunch of French given names and call it "nombre del bebé". Keep the cycle going.
- foobarian 5y agoSpeaking of names is it really true than in Sweden you have to get a baby name approved by some government office? How strict is that in practice?
- ikornaselur 5y agoNot sure about Sweden, but in Iceland there's a naming committee that has to approve names not already on the approved list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee It does look like there's a similar thing in Sweden though
- 1-more 5y agoTo add: I think this is to make sure the name can be declined into the noun cases necessary to make sentences in Icelandic.
- blntechie 5y agoIn Iceland, I believe one can’t give the baby a last name not following the -son or -dottir format even if the parents are not Icelandic I believe. Atleast it was the case until few years back. Not sure it changed recently or they need to go through an approval process.
- teddyh 5y agoIt’s sort of true. Strictly speaking, it’s true, but it’s mostly to prevent weird people from naming their kid “X Æ A-12” or “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116” (yes, really).
- LegitShady 5y agoPathological but productive.
- hamaluik 5y agolol, that describes me a little too well..
- LegitShady 5y agoThere's a certain kind of personality that says "I have a problem someone else must have that too - I'll make an app" The productive part comes when you actually finish the app
- disintegore 5y agoI've always loved the term "baby name". Makes it seem like you grow out of it eventually and have to switch to an adult name like "Roger" or "Raymond".
- tasogare 5y agoThat used to be the case in some culture, like the Chinese one.
- hamaluik 5y agoHaha, I love it! Our first kid was code-named “baby thunder” before being born (we delayed telling some friends so we wouldn’t steal their “baby thunder”). The name stuck around for a couple months after she was born before we trailed off using it, so it really was her “baby name” :p
- robotresearcher 5y agoWe did a similar thing. Early on, our toddler proposed the name Bin-ban for his upcoming sister, and it stuck. We have a lovely video of the toddler explaining to Grannie a few hours after the birth 'her name is Bin-ban'. 'Oh <long pause>, yes, but she has a real name'. We called her Bin-ban for a few more weeks until she sort of grew into her 'real' name. That beautiful little original name is a very fond memory for us.
- prawn 5y agoOur son proposed “Caterpillar Pop” for his looming sister which I always liked. “Mustard” was the codename for another unborn child (my sister’s, I think).
- epage 5y agoOurs was Stardust, tying into part of their name that is a constellation name.
- GrinningFool 5y agoIn a way - perhaps? If someone doesn't like their name they can change it when they reach adulthood (at least in the US)
- gbronner 5y agoI did something like this with jupyter and the census records. I added filters for min and max popularity, gender ratio, scrabble score, number of syllables, length, etc.
- jdmichal 5y agoI love that you implemented scrabble score. Not even legal to play, but fun none the less!
- hamaluik 5y agoThat sounds awesome!
- z2 5y agoI did almost the exact same thing (minus scrabble score!), and am convinced there's at least a few interesting blog posts or even research papers left that can come from these records. Maybe because it was all too contrived, it fell by the wayside when my wife came across something she really liked in a poem, and we basically used the closest name that embodied the phrase. For the next child I'll probably just try asking a transformer model.
- ensignavenger 5y agoI see that is is Open Source, which is awesome. Would you consider distributing it on fdroid?
- hamaluik 5y agoYes! I still haven’t found time to do so for my other app (Time Cop), but I should probably just get my butt in gear and figure it out.
- ensignavenger 5y agoThank you, I downloaded both apps to try them out- don't plan on having a baby anytime soon, though :) And thank you for using an Open Source license! I always look for utility apps like these in fdroid first, so I know if I were just out looking for something like this, I would be more likely to download it versus another app if it were in fdroid!
- cunningfatalist 5y agoCongratulations! :)
- hamaluik 5y agoThanks!
- msoad 5y agoHas anyone named their child with an accent character like è in the US? Have you run into any issues? What your experience has been?
- bklyn11201 5y agoYou will run into mountains of issues with USA systems if you insist on using the è. You will fill out physical paperwork at the hospital. How will it be translated by the typists and OCR? Passport matching against the airline information. Will it match? School enrollment: will all the username systems be ready for the UTF-8 character?
- throwawaygh 5y agoMost states won't even allow you to give you child a name with a diacritical mark.
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- rockinghigh 5y agoIt's not allowed in most US states. If you already have a name with an accent most companies and agencies will just remove it.
- Humdeee 5y agoThis would also work well as a pet or animal name generator. You could apply many more filters (Species -> breed -> colour -> gender) My SO and I acquired some new pets during covid for added company and we scoured through websites that were pretty plain, simply names as a list in bullet form. Your app is more fun, interactive, and memorable of an activity. People appreciate that!
- hamaluik 5y agoGood idea, and would be easy enough to fork and do. Just need to find a list of pet names somewhere.
- lawlorino 5y agoI would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to have to pick names that sound good in both languages. For this particular combination girl names aren't too rare but there's very few boy names that come to mind.
- o_____________o 5y agohttps://mixedname.com/ https://mixedname.com/
- hamaluik 5y agoPerfect! I'm continually shocked at how many solutions there are in this whole baby-naming space. I think there's something so personal about it that especially drives people to do it for themselves.
- hamaluik 5y agoThat's a great idea! Though I think it would take an awful lot of data-munging to get there. Friends of ours struggled with this exact thing, but with English & French.
- mabub24 5y agoThe trick with English and French names is to move outside of Anglo-Saxon sounding monosyllables towards more Anglo-Norman names. Henry (Henri), Michael (Michel), Oliver (Olivier), Julian (Jules), Anton (Antoine), Bernard (Benoit, ou seulment Bernard), Dominic (Dominique), Alexander (Alexandre), even William. The really French names, though, are going to be pretty rough if it's a dominantly English speaking enviro. It's rare to come across an English speaker named Guy or Guillame.
- seanc 5y agoBelieve it or not a good source of those is the Bible. Every language knows what do with them, either pronounce natively or a direct analogue; Ivan/John and so on.
- voisin 5y agoIt would be great to be able to make a judgment on all related names, like thumbs down or heart “William”, “Willy”, “Will” all at once. Or to filter names by ethnic group? Overall it is fantastic but I find 100k names to be daunting!
- grvdrm 5y agoHave #2 on the way and a short list of names we like, but awesome! Good way to grab new suggestion in the case that one catches my attention more than the names we already like. Also, agree with the your comment elsewhere that this is something to do "when you have a few minutes to kill"
- privacyonsec 5y agocongrats, maybe you can use qr-code scanning for linking instead of sharing code ?
- hamaluik 5y agoThat's a really great idea, I'll add that for the next release for sure! Thanks!
- 123pie123 5y agodid you know that ... >In England, Northern Ireland and Wales, the law requires you to register a birth within 42 days (GOV.UK, 2019a). In Scotland, a birth needs to be registered within 21 days We couldn't think of a name that we both liked and went well over the 42 days to register the name, we got a court order around 120 days. Jokingly I said to my partner you're the one that'll be going to court not me. She replied that's ok I'll name the baby after the first person I see. We settled on a name and registered the (not very new) baby the next morning
- reaperducer 5y ago>In England, Northern Ireland and Wales, the law requires you to register a birth within 42 days (GOV.UK, 2019a). In Scotland, a birth needs to be registered within 21 days My parents would have been in jail. They were both Old World immigrants and very traditional (though, from different countries). So I wasn't named until I was almost a year old. Also I didn't have a haircut until after 1yo, supposedly a cultural tradition. Didn't wear pants until I was 2yo, again supposed to be a cultural thing. Here's the one that blows a lot of young people's minds: I didn't have a Social Security number until I was 17. And the only reason I got one was so I could get a passport. These days you can't function, even as a child, without a Social Security number. Back then, you were still considered a human being and an American citizen even if you weren't constantly enumerated, tabulated, and tracked.
- Minor49er 5y agoA lot of the features being suggested below, such as origins, spellings, saving names, etc, are available on https://babynames.com/ https://babynames.com/. However, they only have the site and not an app. Not trying to detract from the project. I was just curious if there was something that covered these that was already out there
- aigo 5y agoMy dad said to me "don't give your boy one of those trendy new names, stick to something traditionally English" so I called him Æthelbert.
- Tempest1981 5y agoHow is that is trending, compared to X Æ A-12 ?
- wohfab 5y agoThey literally say, it is not trending, but traditional.
- tgv 5y agoSorry to hear that. Just 14, it must be hard to become a father.
- jacobolus 5y agoI hope you spell it Æþelbriht like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Entry_for_827_in_the_Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle,_which_lists_the_eight_bretwaldas.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Entry_for_827_in_the_Angl...
- Fiahil 5y agoYour app is fucking amazing. Would it be possible to filter names by regions or language as well as decades ?
- hamaluik 5y agoThanks! I really wanted that in the app (and more filters besides), but the data source was the US Social Security administration (the easiest to access list of names I could find) [1], and it really only includes the number of people with a given name and sex for each year. To include the region / language would be a lot of data processing work that I sadly don't have time for. [1] https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html
- wohfab 5y agoA way to "upload" your own name list would be an incredible feature. Whether it is a .csv or a plain .txt with one name per line.
- Fiahil 5y agoIf you really want it, you could create a github repo with an alphabetically-sorted CSV list of baby names (one file per first letter). Describe the expected format, add a CI for validation and we (the people from the internet) will fill it out for you, according to the old open-source style :) EDIT: Btw, here is the same file for France, with a different format, of course : https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004?sommaire=4767262 https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004?sommaire=476726...
- loonster 5y agoWhen deciding on a name for my 2nd child, I wanted them to go together. I looked up which years were the most popular for my oldest, and looked at lists of names that were popular in that timeframe. I think you could also use years to suggest names that neither parent has on their list. Based on names that the parents have liked, find out which decade was most popular. (Geometric Mean would probably be most useful to combine scores between parents).
- axiom92 5y agoCongratulations! The app looks neat too. I worked on https://madaan.github.io/names/ https://madaan.github.io/names/ a few years ago when my friends had a baby. The idea is slightly different (transferring Indian names to American names etc.), but the motivation was similar.
- hamaluik 5y agoThanks! That page is really interesting to me! I'm definitely going to spend some time this weekend going through it and learning all about it.
- cdubzzz 5y agoShameless plug for my caregiver support app Baby Buddy[0]. Previously a Show HN[1] as well. The app turned four years old not long ago (as did our first child!) and I'm still enjoying hacking away on it. Give it a try if you are in to self-hosting and over-engineering (your child?). [0] https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558057 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558057
- JetSetWilly 5y agoBack when my wife was pregnant I took the CSV export of baby name frequencies for last 10 years from the scottish National Records office (where we live) and loaded the lot into elasticsearch/kibana. It was quite good, for any candidate name you could see popularity as a whole, trends from year to year - and it would give you ideas. Coming up with names is easy but but coming up with names that both of you like is the difficult part.
- fluf 5y agoSo cool, gonna use it right now! Thanks! Also, congrats for the baby and the app! Since everyone is asking for features: do you think you could add a filter for country, please?
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- VeninVidiaVicii 5y agoI was halfway expecting to see a “This Baby Name Does Not Exist” generator.
- gred 5y agoNice. Very relatable, though my equivalent summary was slightly different: "My wife is pregnant; naturally I wrote a name database analysis tool to generate a name shortlist". Congratulations!
- bubbleegret 5y agoWhat's the best way to explore a large set, one by one? Maybe cluster names (maybe there's a meaningful-enough language model that works), then when someone likes a name, sample within cluster n times, before hopping out to the big set again.
- mynameisash 5y agoThere's something about picking the names for your kids that is just so fun and special. For those of you for whom this app may be relevant, I hope you have even half as much fun as my wife and I did picking names. Ever since my wife was little, she had a particular name chosen for her son. So when we got pregnant, we already knew what the boy name would be. But we had fun coming up with a girl name, and that fun was both serious fun imagining a world in which we'd have a Megan or a Lily or a Lydia or whatever, and it was also very playful and ridiculous. We would one-up each other with what we thought were ridiculous names that just don't make sense (given our language, culture, etc.). So then our son was born, and she got her wish for the name she's always wanted. Then when we got pregnant again, we got to go through the fun a second time around. One day, when my dad was over and was playing with our toddler, my wife and I were joking about silly names. "What about X if it's a girl? What about Y if it's a boy?" I got a call that night from my mom, very concerned. "Have... have you decided on baby names? ... What did you decide?" I told her the two names we had (seriously) decided on. "Oh. Your father thought he heard some very bizarre names that you were thinking about." We had to explain our little game to her so she understood the situation.
- whimsicalism 5y agoWhat would be the very bizarre names warranting a call from your mom lol?
- epage 5y agoGirl names are been relatively fun but boy names have been a challenge. The options feel limited if you want one that isn't overdone but isn't ... strange.
- veb 5y agoMy son was born in 2013. For some reason I immediately blurted out "Archer" when we found out we were having a boy. My wife did not like it, I loved the name! I kept referring to him as Archer, and then soon she couldn't think of him as anything other than Archer, haha. It's a great name and it suits him so well, and it's unique enough (it was not a popular name back in 2012-2013) but I'm seeing it become more popular now. He's still the only Archer at his school though. (no, I hadn't even watched the Archer TV series or heard about it, but one day I will...)
- dr_dshiv 5y agoWe named each of our kids beginning with the letter M. My hope was that it would become ridiculous and my wife would want to stop having babies. Didn’t work. She wants the 4th.
- imnicuhtine 5y agoGood luck! We have a friend with 7 kids with all "C" names because they wanted the 7 C's
- regus 5y agoWe recently had our first child and finding a name for him was extremely difficult. We tried using books and apps but they weren't that helpful. Part of the problem was that we wanted a name that would work in both english and spanish, and wasn't too popular or trendy. I found that I hated most boy names, especially the ones that are trendy today (Aiden, Jaiden, Zaiden). Feel free to name your kids whatever you want, but here is my advice to anyone who is trying to name a child: --------- 1. Do not tell anyone what the name will be before the child is born. They will try to talk you out of it. 2. If your family is not a native speaker of your language then present them with a list of a bunch of names that also includes the ones you want. Then ask them to pronounce all the names. That will let you know if your family will be able to accurately pronounce the name. 3. If you are going to give them a middle name make sure that their initials don't spell out something embarrassing like Carl Otis Winslow. 4. Do a google search of your child's first and last name so you don't accidentally name them after a serial killer or some other controversial person. Also google their initials so you don't accidentally name them after a company or a chemical. 5. Consider how their first name can used against them by other kids. Does it rhyme with something? Is there some famous fictional character with the same name? 6. Try to delay giving your child a name for as long as you can before leaving the hospital. This will give you time to decide which name best fits this person who is now in the world. (I thought I would name my son one thing, but decided that he didn't 'look' like some one with that name) 7. Do not leave the hospital without naming the child (unless you have a good reason to do this). I know some one who waited a month to name their child and they wouldn't recommend doing this. 8. Consider how popular the name is. Most of the names in the top 10 are popular for a reason, they tend to be good names, but do you want your kid to have a unique name, or just another kid among the other 10 Liams and Olivias in their class? 9. People are going to give your kid a nickname the instant they are born, whether you like it or not. Are you okay with people calling your kid Bobby, Danny, Mikey, etc? If not then consider a different name.
- comprev 5y agoThe impact of the name on the child/teen/adult is often overlooked. Great to see you've considered the negatives, especially how the name/initials could be used against them.
- MangezBien 5y agoMy wife is also pregnant and this is the first baby-name app I don't hate.
- hamaluik 5y agoCongrats! And thanks!
- thom 5y agoHa, awesome. I went through the exact same thing of getting a bit stuck on names and trying to solve it algorithmically. My approach was using very simple Bayesian classifier to try and find sounds and spellings you liked. https://twitter.com/lemonwatcher/status/1286082683412582403 https://twitter.com/lemonwatcher/status/1286082683412582403
- nroviw 5y agoOne thing that would be cool is to see the name with initials (given family name/middle name) and also to check social media/email accounts and even domain names to see if you can get a unique handle for them based on a few variations ;) Those would make a great gift when they join the internet one day.
- wingspan 5y agoThis is fantastic, wish I had it before we had our fourth and final child. One piece of feedback: when I use the app with my thumb, the natural position for it to rest is right over the name. Consider moving the name more towards the center or top of the screen and making it possible to swipe anywhere in the top yellow area.
- ppierald 5y agoI made one of these for Yahoo! Health in 2000. Naturally it was not an app. Good idea!
- seanw444 5y agoVery cool. My only gripe with the UI is that when opening the popularity graph of a name, using the Android system-wide back button does not close the popularity graph. That would be handy.
- Amorymeltzer 5y agoWe just had our second a few weeks ago, and to figure out some names, we each got a big list of "kind of like this name," totally casual and noncommittal, and combined them. We then used a little Elo[1] rater script I whipped up to compare items, it was fun! Once you get a short list there's no good algorithm to figure it out, but using Elo we both found names we loved that we never would have thought about, and had a fun time doing so. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
- hamaluik 5y agoCongrats! Elo rating is a good idea for sorting.. I just implemented an insertion sort to help rank names which works but also feels a bit awkward.
- remram 5y agoYour sort has a way higher complexity than required, in terms of comparisons. It will present the user with way more pairs than the optimal system would, which will make it very hard to sort through a longer list. You might want to use a merge insertion sort instead. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/53979250/711380 https://stackoverflow.com/a/53979250/711380 Of course this only works if you assume the order is total, which is actually a good assumption unless multiple people are contributing to the same ranking (in that case use ELO).
- hamaluik 5y agoHmm, that is a good idea; thanks. I don't have a CS degree so this is one of those areas where I don't know what I don't know.
- remram 5y agoOn an intuitive level, if I just said I prefer "Alice" to "Anna", and "Anna" to "Mary", it should not ask whether I prefer "Alice" to "Mary". In practice that seems a little bit difficult and I was hoping someone would jump with the optimal solution.
- quartz 5y agoWhen we were hunting for baby names I found that fiction character naming books (ex: The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook) were really great for inspiration. They tend to focus on the perceived qualities of the names more than the social qualities and are often more bold in their offerings.
- hamaluik 5y agoThat's a really clever idea, and would probably give us the types of names we're looking for (not common but everyone knows it and knows how to spell & pronounce it).
- ssalka 5y agoWish there was an option for "I'm not sure, show me this name again some other time"
- hamaluik 5y agoMy feelings on this is that if you're not sure, that's actually an immediate dislike.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoI would probably sanitize the db by ignoring the names from the last 20 years or so.
- hamaluik 5y agolol, you can filter those out in the app if so desired (my filters currently only show names popular before the 1930s).
- metalforever 5y agoman, why not spend time with your wife during this exciting time instead of this?
- hamaluik 5y agoWe both work from home and literally spend nearly 24 hours a day together. I may have coded it but not in a vacuum; she helped design and test it. Despite having many things in common, we also believe it is healthy to each have hobbies & interests that are separate.
- cortesoft 5y agoHaha, I guess this is what every programmer does when they have a kid. I wrote an ELO ranking program when I had my first kid: https://github.com/cortesoft/BabyNamer https://github.com/cortesoft/BabyNamer Give it a list of names, it presents pairs of names to voters who choose which they prefer of the two. Allows many people to work together to narrow down a name choice. I took the site down after a while because I didn't want to keep paying for it after both my kids were born. It worked ok, although the app basically just confirmed that we had clear favorites for our names.
- hamaluik 5y agoAwesome. I sincerely wish I found this before I decided to write my own, we definitely would have used it!
- jones1618 5y agoI did something similar, although it was a Windows desktop app. Finding and picking names was easy. My wife and I found it hard to rank them so the app (like yours) showed two names (drawn from her list, my list and top 200 popular names) and you'd make a gut choice of favorite. After a few dozen rounds, clear winners would emerge. We could see the top 10 from each of our lists and easily spot overlaps. Since, I've used the same code to decide on vacation destinations and even what house to buy. It avoided a lot of marital disputes, for sure.
- gumby 5y agoWe had a problem (many years ago!) choosing a name all the various relatives could pronounce (between the two sides of the family there were half a dozen languages and no one person spoke them all). We had to throw away phonemes that not everyone could say and ended up with a single syllable name that everybody could at least pronounce one way or another. Another is “is this name a rude or funny word in one of these other languages?”
- galang 5y agoBrilliant! Congratulations to you and your wife
- hamaluik 5y agoThanks!
- awslattery 5y agoCongratulations! App looks great, and as someone who's looking forward to meeting our first little one in a few weeks, wish you and the wife all the best on your own journey.
- hamaluik 5y agoThanks, and congrats to you too!
- throwaway6734 5y agoI'm unable to share on Android version 12 of a pixel 4a
- random3 5y ago2 months too late. We went with our default / backup
- icedistilled 5y agoTomorrow on hacker news I expect to see a "This-name-does-not-exist" app. Make it happen.
- derbOac 5y agoNice! I have to admit making a naming app has been on my mind since we had our child. I learned I really love naming and name issues in general, and really got into the name and naming community more than I thought. I think the reason I never got around to it was I didn't really know where to start, and wrestled with issues around open source versus private data, how to collect the data I needed to do what I wanted, and how to balance data retention against privacy issues. I think I was just thinking of bootstrapping from users but was never sure if that would work or if I could do it another way.
- kamikaz1k 5y agoThanks for making this! I am getting the "Something went wrong sharing your liked names list" when I click on the sharing tab. I wanna see the overlap between my partners app and mine.
- hamaluik 5y agoDang, I'm sorry about that.. any chance you can send me a screenshot / phone details? I unfortunately don't have a good way of debugging this (essentially I think that error implies that you can't reach the server for whatever reason). And looking at the server logs is telling me that I have some more work to do there :(
- josh_thurman 5y agoThis is fantastic - I hesitate to show it to my wife because it will induce baby fever. I have a feature request for a naming contract option between you and your partner. When you begin the name search you outline an agreement on key issues i.e.: -Veto rules -No Later Than Date for settling the name -Method(s) and timing by which you will release the name -Family name considerations In my experience with 5 kids it's these things that end up taking the joy out of naming. Congrats on the coming baby!
- pie42000 5y agoVery weird design choices. The like/dislike buttons are super small, the Names rated/names remaining counter takes up half the screen and seems like it should be at most 10-20% of the screen. Names are too small. BB complains about app design all the time and then creates these monstrosities
- Tade0 5y agoNice - I got our daughter's name at the 27th try. Our method was to wait until she started kicking in the womb and pick the name based on the consistent intensity of kicks when it was said out loud. As a control we used common words. Out of them "Cockroach" got the most enthusiastic response.
- kerblang 5y agoWhat, has everyone forgotten the legendary babynamewizard.com? It was one of the few java applets that succeeded. Seems to be still kicking, probably rewritten in javascript. https://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=&sw=both&exact=false https://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=&sw=both&exact...
- rStar 5y agoNobody cares about stuff that’s good on hacker news, they want some new bullshit that will allow themselves to compete to attach themselves to a revenue stream to enable them to get into Elizabeth Holmes country club. Babynamewizard is a pretty good example.
- hirenj 5y agoBack when I had to choose names for our kids, I needed to find names that were pronounceable in both Danish and Gujarati. Solving this involved taking names lists from both languages, and getting the phonemes for each name (based upon the language pronunciation). Following that it was a simple matter of finding the names with the shortest edit distances, so we could shortlist names that were familiar enough in each language. My wife ended up picking names off the top of her head that entirely coincidentally were part of the shortlist.
- avrata 5y agoNice App! However as someone named "Robyn" I got very confused by the screenshot and the claims against tracking. Totally threw me for a loop. Is that a special name in any way for you?
- hamaluik 5y agoSorry for the mini heart-attack! No, to be honest to get that screenshot I just launched the app in an emulator, randomly swiped left and right a bunch of times, then took the shot. I think it is a nice name though :)
- ivolimmen 5y agoMy baby naming days are long in my past. I have two daughters of 14 and 12. Their names where a real challenge. My wife and I lost our first child. It would have been a boy. We had chosen for the name Roan. We where of course devastated. A part of me was also very sad for loosing the name. If the second would also be a boy we could no longer give it this beautiful name. We knew the second would become a girl and we wanted to include the name Roan in it. After really long puzzling we came to the name: Norah. It contains all letters or Roan and an added H. Something for her specifically. When we had our third we wanted to do this again. Norah was already at the daycare by then and played a lot with a child called Roos. Somehow we liked the combination but it did not contain all the letters or Roan. After some thinking we settled on Rosanne and we call her Roos (that's Rose in English). So her name does contain all the letters of Roan and extra. I like the idea but I am unable to have any more kids Congrats one your pregnancy and I wish you the best of luck.
- geoffbp 5y agoMy wife and I also lost our first, who was a boy at 23 weeks. It was an awful experience to say the least
- ivolimmen 5y agoForgot to mention that we had an extra rule when deciding on a name: it had to have a unique starting letters. I had a friend in highschool his parents and his siblings all had the same first letter. They thought it was fun but later on it because a privacy nightmare when post arrived...
- 30minAdayHN 5y agoWhen we were deciding our kids names, we established some 'first principles'. I thought that simplified the process for us a lot. Of course, these principles are very subjective to the couple based on what they believe etc. Sharing hoping some might help others: 1. Names should be simple and should be pronounceable by anyone (we are from india and people can't just pronounce our names) 2. No association with anything religious or gods (we both are atheists) 3. No attributions to characteristics or features (it's common in indian names where the names mean something like one with beautiful eyes, one with great smile etc) 4. Names should end with vowel sounds (our mother tongue has sounds ending with vowel sounds. i heard it's the same with italian) 5. Avoid name bias and make sure people cannot guess ethnicity based on their first name 6. Have a middle name related to indian roots Quite interestingly, our super set became quite limited with just those 6 principles. My biggest take away is, there is no such thing as a beautiful name. When we think about names (at least in US), kid is not born yet. So we think about them as an independent thing. When as kid is born, they look so beautiful to you that, name naturally sounds beautiful to you. :)
- jboggan 5y agoThis is really fantastic work. When we were naming our baby last year we did a playoff bracket system with pen and paper, but this is so much more thorough. Great visual style as well.
- seFausto 5y agoThis is great for me right now. My wife is pregnant too, and she has gone through many names and for some reason, I'm not convinced on any name (I don't know why this is, something personal I believe).
- dbetteridge 5y agoSomething went wrong sharing your liked names list. S21 Ultra - Android 11 Not sure what other info I can provide (I'm in the UK on talktalk broadband)
- mosfets 5y agoWhen the baby is finally old enough and ask "Dad/Mom, why did you name me as xxx?", and you answer "oh, it's from that app the dude on HN wrote.", imagine how would he/she feel XD
- vmception 5y agoa) lie b) maybe that will be common enough by then c) does that really come up a lot? I don't think I ever asked why and don't think I would require a profound answer. I guess maybe if it wasn't a name that blended in I would have more questions and thoughts about it.
- bananamerica 5y agoI'm pretty sure kids bourn around 2021 will see using apps for everything as something very natural. People used to rely on physical books for that. No big deal.
- sleight42 5y agoMissed opportunity. You could’ve reached out to Heroku to give you several different haiku options. ;)
- mcast 5y agoAre the list of names shuffled? Even adding a pseudo shuffle UI action would provide some good mental feedback to the user.
- broabprobe 5y agoooh, I'm not even having a kid but this is fun to play around with! One feature that would be nice to see: adding names. I always thought it would be fun to name a kid Pickle but it's not in your list :) thanks for making this!
- madsohm 5y agoI did the same for my girlfriend and I and preloaded it with all approved Danish names (42,000 in total) that we could then swipe through. I made it as a private web app, so that I didn't need to consider authentication.
- pmarreck 5y agoHah, we agonized over this just 4 months ago with our first kid, finally settling on "Samson", this app would have been a huge help!
- polishdude20 5y agoIt's funny that we call them "baby names" when it's more that this name will be with this human for much longer than their baby years. Maybe calling it a baby name pre conditions us to think of the name as applying to a baby rather than to an adult human.
- heywherelogingo 5y agoHacker? News?
- jl6 5y agoFantastic work. Can you add a feature to do cache invalidation too?
- vmception 5y agoReminder: baby names are adult names.
- asymptotic 5y agoCongratulations! I did the exact same thing; made an app to help name my first child. I've slowly developed a method which incorporates 1) culture, 2) popularity in different countries, and 3) pronunciation of names and attempts to recommend you names based on names you like. It kind of works, it's taken a lot of tuning to make it output something sensible. It's specifically designed to attempt to combine cultures together, which is a top request from customers I identified. I've been working on releasing the app for a while. If you're interested in helping me test it before its release this month please feel free to sign up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/qge6t9/im_looking_for_people_to_test_a_baby_name/ https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/qge6t9/im_lookin... I will also look at this thread's comments closely before launching.
- laingc 5y agoVery nice! The baby name app we used worked on a Tinder-like swipe-right basis. At the end, you ended up with your “matches”. But the best part about the app was the name - Kinder. (German for “children” and rhymes with Tinder)
- olliemath 5y agoVery nice! We spent quite some time on this and aren't even having a kid. How did you implement the tournament? It feels very long when you have many names - almost like it's doing all N^2 pairs, or is there something smarter? EDIT: spelling
- Fnoord 5y agoMy wife and me didn't use a computer application. We used p&p and made a list of names we liked, then gave each other the list at a deathline date. Then we reviewed each other's list, if we had a name on both our lists it got a pre (this kind of happened with our first). Otherwise, marked any of the names the other person liked, and then it all started. What I mean with that, its multiple names. The name has to flow. It shouldn't be an offensive acronym. We want certain references (to our last name, and several family members). But all in all, its a matter of give and take. You win some, you lose some. I'm sure the main principle of the matching can be made in a Tinder-esque app (though I never used Tinder, so I am kind of guessing how it works). But I kind of liked the ease of handing out the lists and the discussions. I don't think an app can (easily) replace that, at least not fully automated. The manual stuff can be made in threads with replies etc. Just some words of advice: ensure you start when you know gender (can do gender reveal but don't wait too long), and take into account a child can come too early, so don't wait too long. Start proactively with the names. Even if the birth ends up in a disaster (it is possible) you still want to give him/her a name. After all, you knew him/her, especially the woman as she had the child inside her. Naming your child, even if its a miscarriage, helps with acceptance of the tragedy. In other words: it is not a lost effort.
- robbrown451 5y agoNeeds more filters. I'd like ones that are based on popularity, so people (for instance) can aim for a name that is neither very popular or extremely rare. So many other things that could be filtered on. I personally would like one that allows you to pick them based on popularity in parts of the world (for instance I might want to view names that is more popular in Europe than in the US), or even one that lets you choose names with or without diacritics. (I wanted a name for my daughter that had a "heavy metal umlaut" like Zöe but the mom ruled it out, which was a good idea now that I'm not on a Mac and I realize how freaking hard it is to type that) I can think of many other suggestions (screenshots on your main page, and pick a chill color scheme as the default), but this is a pretty cool idea, and good luck.
- systemdave 5y agoAs a soon-to-be father in 3 months, this is great! My wife and I are using this as we speak :)
- rStar 5y agoSo glad I don’t have kids
- rStar 5y agoEspecially in the Bay Area. If you do, I recommend a move to some Pennsylvania farm country where you can have a good life and a good school district. No better life available.
- dumbfounder 5y agoMaybe seed it with the user's genealogy?
- privatdozent 5y agoCongrats!
- rossdavidh 5y agoDoes it include "X Æ A-12"?
- conductr 5y agoNice! I needed this a few years ago. I was browsing the baby name sides, comparing notes with my wife, etc. Thinking all along, I wish there was a tinder-for-baby-names that would show us our mutual matches. Kudos on getting it done!!
- jdright 5y agoVery nice app. A few suggestions after using it a bit: Remove names: Unknown, Unnamed, Unk and Unborn (Some of these have dupes with typos) Add an option to not show twice names that are unisex, they should show only once but maybe with a multi colored card. This is useful for two things: 1. actually looking for unisex names (or avoiding them - a filter?), so you don't need to keep in mind or search on both sexes 2. Reduce the amount of total names to review Also something to help reduce yet more variations, an option to group similar or very close related names together. Ex. I saw Ulisses then Ulysses then Uulisses and so on. And lastly, a way to sort by popularity, so that I can review the less (or most) popular first. Anyway, great app and congratulations for the baby.
- circa 5y agoI hope Seven or Soda are both in the list!
- farmin 5y agoNice app. How do you like flutter? I am learning dart flutter now and it seems quite powerful and huge community growing around it is nice.
- sunpazed 5y agoCongratulations and nice work! I build a baby-name webapp when we were expecting our second child a few years ago. Random rolls were fun and filter by rarity, etc http://peanutapp.herokuapp.com/ http://peanutapp.herokuapp.com/
- learc83 5y agoWhen my wife and I were picking names for our son earlier this year, I pulled down a list of the top 1,000 names from the social security office. I removed the top 20, and then we kept making passes removing more names until we were down to the winner. I called it name whittling. It was surprisingly easy to whittle the list down to 50 names or so.
- scns 5y agoFor my next child i will do it like my neighbours. Wait till it is born and wait till a name comes up.
- qwerty456127 5y agoAdd numerology analysis as a premium feature. A number can be assigned to every specific letter. You add them up, then again until it's just 1 digit. The digit has a meaning supposedly influencing the person destiny and personal traits a specific way. I don't mean this is true, but I know many people believe it is (or may be so why not) - I personally met many such people. This way you can attract some extra audience.
- tempestn 5y agoCounter-point: some people may think this is BS to the extent that they'd give the app a pass after seeing that in the feature list.
- qwerty456127 5y agoPerhaps. A/B testing probably is necessary. I would try and some way emphasize the numerology part is just a game, entirely optional and doesn't interfere with the actual job the app does - suggesting names. Another, a more rational extra feature I can think of is providing a clue on how easy it is going to be for speakers of different languages to pronounce the name or to spell it in their alphabet. Some clue on the etymological meaning/history of the name and history of some notable people named this way, etymological counterparts in other languages, some fun facts like "how do you spell it in tengwar", statistical data on where and when was the name popular, cultural data like if it sounds close to some specific word in some specific language etc should probably also be there.
- kaftoy 5y agoDude, the notch on the phone on your website looks 20% larger, not smaller! /joke
- milesvp 5y agoI too wrote code to help with picking baby names with each of my children. Popular but not too popular was a hard requirement when bisecting the SSN data base. One hard thing was not realizing how many variants there were of the name we picked for my daughter. We ended up picking a more popular name than we sort of intended. Naming twins was also extra hard because of the added requirement that the 2 names were of similar “stature” (or “coolness” or something hard to define). Congrats.
- MrLeap 5y agoThis is an interesting thing I had never considered. There would be fascinating consequences for having twins, naming one Kip and the other Themistocles Aurelius.
- msc-post 5y agoI found the listings and subcategories on Wikipedia for 'Given Names' to be a sufficient low-tech resource when surveying names. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29125195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29125195
- Igelau 5y agoI'll bet you're using this dataset: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/baby-names-from-social-security-card-applications-national-data https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/baby-names-from-social-secu... I downloaded it recently to dig for names that start with vowels. I wound up loading it in a SQLite database. Nice work with the decade filter. I feel your pain with that one. I wound up dumping all the years from when "Nevaeh" spiked onward as a quick and dirty clean. This also cleared out the flood of -aidens and some awkward recent trends. After all that, my wife hated every name I suggested from my efforts :) Still a lot of fun to play with the data and watch how the trends change. Like you can find when "Ashley" declines as a male name and rises as a female name.
- soheil 5y agoI'd like to see the first baby born to the courage parents who used this to name their newborn https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/
- skapadia 5y agoSorry no way I’d want to tell my child that their name was determined by a program I wrote. It makes it too impersonal and devoid of affection.
- bananamerica 5y agoThat's awesome. Let me know if you ever decide to add Portuguese/Brazilian names.
- inasio 5y agoI also wrote code when we had a baby (babies actually...), but with a different set of constraints. Me and my partner are from different countries, and we live in a third one, each with its own language, so we wanted to find names that "sounded" ok on all three languages (english, french, and spanish). My algorithm finds roots that are common on all three languages, and suggested a few options. For fun I added where in the decimals of pi it could be found, closest prime number, that kind of thing...
- kenver 5y agoThanks for this. I was going to do something similar because my wife and I can’t think of a name and we only have 4 weeks to go!
- basiphobe 5y agoThat is a LOT of yellow.
- robbles 5y agoI think it's just the curve fitting on the chart widget, but I saw one name where the popularity went negative in the 2000's. I didn't recognize the name at all, so I had to laugh seeing that.
- rkagerer 5y agoFully private — there is no tracking / spying / advertising / etc That's great! But it's a sad world where that's a feature you have to lead with and not just an inherent assumption :-S.
- reilly3000 5y agoCharming and well-executed. Cheers! It makes me this this would be a quite good premise for a dating app. My intuition, after spending ample time with behavior data sets and related conversion data, is simple: people who would name their baby Ashley belong together, as do people who would name them Olivia or Jamari. It would be a wonderful experiment to see how this bears out.
- hakube 5y agoWould great to have an option where you and your partner can choose a name on their own (probably a tinder-like mode)
- MattyRad 5y agoMy wife is pregnant and we just had a really good time going through names, thanks for this! Just like searching for recipes, searching baby names can be a miserable SEO-hijacked/ad-stuffed slog, so this really makes a difference. I did encounter a small bug: I use Android (Pixel 5), the sharing tab wasn't working for me, I get a "Something went wrong sharing your names list" error. But we just texted the list to each other to share names, so it worked out.
- starbase 5y agoWhat a good name!
- WeekSpeller 5y agoCould you please explain the process of collecting these names?
- AnonHP 5y agoTo the OP: I’m curious why this couldn’t be a website too (it’s good that this is available as an app for those who prefer the convenience). Congratulations!
- diveanon 5y agoEasier solution, adopt one of the millions of already named children in desperate need of a home and living family. Procreation is the last thing the world needs.
- DrOctagon 5y agoOnly time I’ve watched TV/movie credits attentively is when we were trying to come up with a name for our kids.
- pasdechance 5y agoThis is cool. But, I am also swinging by to be the jerk who points out a funny thing about French (because the app's name is in French): In French, nom is your surname. Prénom is your name (given name). Your surnom is your nickname. Bonne journée ! (The French put spaces before some punctuation too)
- MauroIksem 5y agoThe spaces before punctuation drives me crazy. My mom still does it.
- throwaway19890 5y ago"Nom" is used interchangeably. In fact in spoken French people regularly use "nom" as given name and "nom de famille" as surname.
- valryon 5y agoNice work! Had the same issue for the second kid and came to the same conclusion I needed an app for that. I never shared it but I’m happy with my “trouve prénom” French only site, based on INSEE names statistics. If you’re curious: http://trouveprenoms.azurewebsites.net/ http://trouveprenoms.azurewebsites.net/
- euske 5y agoI hope that the app makes it clear which country/culture it applies to. (I assume it's for a European-origin family in the US?) We recently had a kid, and in case of our native culture (Japan), people want to pick a name that not only sounds good, but also carries "good fortune" in its characters... based on ancient literature or something (it's kind of feng shui, I guess). The shape of the letters also kind of matters. Note that Chinese characters not only carry sounds but also represent a meaning (ideogram) that adds to the complexity. Also in Japanese many characters tend to have multiple readings. So there are tons of websites where you can search kids name with various conditions (sound, meaning, shape, strokes, popularity, etc), and they look pretty popular. My point is that, the requirements and restrictions of names differ vastly between cultures, and the app can be clear about it.
- ghoshbishakh 5y agoCongratulations! Take care of your wife! :)
- boopmaster 5y agoI personally cringe when I hear any vocalization of the nametag I happen to have been assigned. Not a fan of this noise where some old bag gets to slap a label on a new shiny baby that is unwittingly subscribed to happily responding to that specific cacophony for a lifetime.
- Boltgolt 5y agoWould you prefer young children picking their own name?
- boopmaster 5y agoI think that would actually be really rad. Yes.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoPlease no Apple-Moonbeam-Chicago's-Compass names. Unless you can afford a nanny or private tutoring , kids get lots of grief if they have shitty weird names and daycare is bloody hard enough as it is.
- LUmBULtERA 5y agoThis is great! FYI, one of the options that just popped up for me is "Unnamed". Might want to remove that one :). Or not. Edit: Looks like its popularity peaked in the late 1980s :D
- major--neither 5y agoGive your baby a normal (by today standards) name in your language. Thomas, Alessandro, Alfredo, Rene, Elizabeth, Clara, Helen, ... then in 20 years time it will be unusual and exotic ;)
- nepalvibes 5y agoBuilt something very similar some time ago when my sister was pregnant. https://generate-name.net/popular-names https://generate-name.net/popular-names
- siddienahar 5y agoCongrats to you and your family :) If you're taking requests, a filter by country would serve great. While I loved the concept and the way it's executed, I wish it becomes contextual for me. Also, back button interaction closes the app. If you can fix that too. All in all, loved the app. :D
- siddienahar 5y agoTo add another point, will it be feasible to have the meaning of the name in the details. Or a redirection to external link where meaning of the name can be searched?