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Has anyone named their child with an accent character like è in the US? Have you run into any issues? What your experience has been?
You 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?
Congratulations! The app looks neat too. I worked on 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.
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.
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US-census names actually. As for the name of the app.. well names are hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe someone should do an app-name app.
Its tag line was "So good it named itself".
Doesn't seem to be around any more.
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Why 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.
"Why isn't this a text file so that everybody can simply use their Unix shells to shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/baby-names".
This 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, et…
There's should be a 'Tinder' style option where you and partner both pick names you like and it only shows you the overlap.
This 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!
Your app is fucking amazing. Would it be possible to filter names by regions or language as well as decades ?
Thanks! 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…
EDIT: Btw, here is the same file for France, with a different format, of course : https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004?sommaire=476726...