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Congratulations on both the baby and the launch of the app! There's actually a need-gap for 'Suggest unique pronounceable baby names' posted on my problem vali

Congratulations on both the baby and the launch of the app! There's actually a need-gap for 'Suggest unique pronounceable baby names' posted on my problem validation platform[1]. Although I'm not sure how the uniqueness metric could be added to app, You're welcomed to post Nom de Bébé there in the comments to reach out to those who need it. Edit: Since the main goal of a unique name seems to be email id, social media handle etc. Measuring availability of those from the selected name is actually possible. [1] https://needgap.com/problems/259-suggest-unique-pronounceable-baby-names-linguistics-children https://needgap.com/problems/259-suggest-unique-pronounceabl...

jl6 5y ago
Problem validation is a brilliant idea. Unique names though… there’s a certain safety in numbers that a common name affords. A unique name is very easy to target in searches.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
  And nobody ever understands you when you introduce yourself, or when they're trying to pronounce it from reading it. source: I have a very rare first name.
  - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
    That depends upon where the person with that unique name lives, If the vocabulary is from the native language and the person lives in the same region then they don't have much of a trouble. Then again non-unique names from native regions cannot be pronounced by non-native speakers, My name is far from unique and native English speakers have refereed to it as 'Ab...followed by several other syllables'.
- henrikschroder 5y ago
  It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names.
    - carlmr 5y ago
      Maybe he meant the name unique, not a unique name.
    - pawelmurias 5y ago
      In some countries if you have a weird name people it means that you are either a foreigner or you parents are complete morons. Some names strongly imply the later.
    - Talanes 5y ago
      Yeah, it's more that unique names are more likely to carry class markers (for any class) than common names, because common names are... common.
    - henrikschroder 5y ago
      > Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names. Such as? In my experience, upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, usually a bit on the conservative side, nothing that sticks out too much. Never crazy spelling, never unique names.
      - Mayzie 5y ago
        > Such as? In my experience upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, ... Never crazy spelling, never unique names. X Æ A-12 Musk? Never say never.
        henrikschroder 5y ago
        Being rich doesn't make you upper class, evidently.
- loonster 5y ago
  I like a common first name and uncommon middle name. The first name gives anonymity. The middle gives uniqueness that is rarely used except when you want the full formal name and want to be sure you have the right person.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  Thank you, I've been running needgap for over 2 years. You do have a point regarding security implications of the unique names, Considering people get swatted and have even died for their unique social media handle it might not be worth to pursue a unique name for that.
emodendroket 5y ago
I agree with the other guy about this not necessarily being desirable but you could repurpose pronounceable password generation like this: https://caseyjmorris.github.io/pronounceablePassword/ https://caseyjmorris.github.io/pronounceablePassword/
kapp_in_life 5y ago
Interesting, I haven't had any trouble with concatenating my first & last name for my public handles like email and had never thought this was a problem. Perks of having a relatively unique last name I guess. My sympathy goes out to all the "John Smith"s of the world!

jl6 5y ago

Problem validation is a brilliant idea. Unique names though… there’s a certain safety in numbers that a common name affords. A unique name is very easy to target in searches.

NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
And nobody ever understands you when you introduce yourself, or when they're trying to pronounce it from reading it. source: I have a very rare first name.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  That depends upon where the person with that unique name lives, If the vocabulary is from the native language and the person lives in the same region then they don't have much of a trouble. Then again non-unique names from native regions cannot be pronounced by non-native speakers, My name is far from unique and native English speakers have refereed to it as 'Ab...followed by several other syllables'.
henrikschroder 5y ago
It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names.
  - carlmr 5y ago
    Maybe he meant the name unique, not a unique name.
  - pawelmurias 5y ago
    In some countries if you have a weird name people it means that you are either a foreigner or you parents are complete morons. Some names strongly imply the later.
  - Talanes 5y ago
    Yeah, it's more that unique names are more likely to carry class markers (for any class) than common names, because common names are... common.
  - henrikschroder 5y ago
    > Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names. Such as? In my experience, upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, usually a bit on the conservative side, nothing that sticks out too much. Never crazy spelling, never unique names.
    - Mayzie 5y ago
      > Such as? In my experience upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, ... Never crazy spelling, never unique names. X Æ A-12 Musk? Never say never.
      - henrikschroder 5y ago
        Being rich doesn't make you upper class, evidently.
loonster 5y ago
I like a common first name and uncommon middle name. The first name gives anonymity. The middle gives uniqueness that is rarely used except when you want the full formal name and want to be sure you have the right person.
Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
Thank you, I've been running needgap for over 2 years. You do have a point regarding security implications of the unique names, Considering people get swatted and have even died for their unique social media handle it might not be worth to pursue a unique name for that.

emodendroket 5y ago

I agree with the other guy about this not necessarily being desirable but you could repurpose pronounceable password generation like this: https://caseyjmorris.github.io/pronounceablePassword/ https://caseyjmorris.github.io/pronounceablePassword/

kapp_in_life 5y ago

Interesting, I haven't had any trouble with concatenating my first & last name for my public handles like email and had never thought this was a problem. Perks of having a relatively unique last name I guess. My sympathy goes out to all the "John Smith"s of the world!