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I 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
by lawlorino 5y ago
I 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.
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- 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.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoThis depends on your concept of how names work. Some people (often dependent on native language of those people) think names should be translated, but to me they're more like a token than other words. If your name is Xinyi, your name in English is Xinyi, some people would disagree and say your name in English is Joy; whilst xinyi means joy (IIRC) that's not how names [should] work [IMO]. This might relate in part to how we use a lot of foreign language words for names in UK English. Like how Charis (biblical Greek) is a different name to Grace (modern English) but d both derive from the same meaning. YMMV.
- seanc 5y agoYes, for sure, in the end you should call people what they want to be called. I know lots of Chinese people who chose an English name rather than put up with hearing their Chinese name horribly mangled all the time, and I know other Chinese people who prefer to go by their Chinese name and coach people how to say it properly. Or as close as we can get. In my case sometimes people have trouble with 'Sean' (Irish for John), so I just tell them to say whatever style of John they're most comfortable with. Since it's a biblical name they'll have heard John before in their own language and have access to something familiar. But mileage does vary indeed.
- ziga 5y agoI had the same problem and built this: https://zigam.github.io/ginkgo/ https://zigam.github.io/ginkgo/