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The names seem to be all Anglo. Which is fine, if that's the target audience, but these names would be weird for someone of Indian/Asian/Middle-Eastern/Russian/
by alphakappa 12y ago
The names seem to be all Anglo. Which is fine, if that's the target audience, but these names would be weird for someone of Indian/Asian/Middle-Eastern/Russian/Eastern-European etc (i.e. plenty of places where you wouldn't call a boy 'Henry')
- themynnx 12y agoPoint taken. It uses the US Social Security Administration's list of baby names from 2012 and does a weighted random selection, so that more popular baby names chosen in 2012 are more likely to be chosen (but less popular ones still come through pretty often.) The gender-neutral names work similarly, by finding the intersection of boy/girl names in that dataset and weights the names by the popularity of the name and the evenness of the boy/girl distribution.
- alphakappa 12y agoThat makes sense. (Apologies if my comment above came off as needlessly negative - This is a fun tool to play with)