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Geeky naming baby naming story time! My wife's Japanese, and I'm Finnish. To name our kids, I found databases of Finnish and Japanese names, cross-referenced
by jpatokal 12y ago
Geeky naming baby naming story time! My wife's Japanese, and I'm Finnish. To name our kids, I found databases of Finnish and Japanese names, cross-referenced them together (with fuzzy matching to account for spelling variance, so eg. l == r and Finnish j == Japanese y), and filtered out those that were opposite genders. In the end, there were precisely three male names left... and we used two!
Crappy code on Github: https://github.com/jpatokal/baby_names https://github.com/jpatokal/baby_names
I was originally going to make this a public website, but encoding all the sound-vs-spelling rules is a pain and doing N-to-N fuzzy matching with raw SQL is too slow.
- tizzdogg 12y agoWhere did you get the databases of names? I'd like to do something similar but for different countries. Edit: Nevermind, I see it is in the README under data.
- lovemenot 12y agoUsed a similar method to this. For a boy, we opted for Kai , which I believe works for some Nordic countries' names (and Scotland) as well as in Japanese (umi).