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Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by mc32 »

throw0101a wrote: post #28
mc32 wrote: post #17

I prefer the ones that have translations like: John. Ian, Ivan, Jan, Johan, Aidan, Juan, Joao, etc. Charles, Matthew, Katherine, Ann, and so on so you have an actual name with a standard accepted translation in many languages. French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translated or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence.

> French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translates or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence. Any name of a (Catholic) saint would probably have mappings to other languages. (The Jesuits got around. :)

Ah that makes total sense now that you mention it.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by ziga »

moultano wrote: post #29

I did a similar thing for our kids (Hindi/English) but we had slightly different goals. Since the kids were getting my English surname, we wanted to give them Hindi first names, but we wanted them to be easily pronounceable in English. So I wrote a character-based ngram language model based on the US census count of names, and used that to score a list of Hindi names. I then improved it by adding a bunch of rewrite r…

Also did something similar and generalized it across languages by using Metaphone phonetic encoding (which is biased towards English pronunciation however):

https://github.com/zigam/ginkgo/blob/gh-pages/README.md

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by James_Henry »

One issue that might come up using this with languages that don't use the Latin alphabet is that you can sometimes choose how to romanize your name, a popular one being Yoo-jin in Korean but choosing to romanize it as Eugene.

This website only comes up with Hana and Sam, however.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by czzr »

Hamuko wrote: post #34
Angeo34 wrote: post #27

Finnish and Japanese is another of those combinations that should work very easily since the languages are related even if it's just indirectly.

I actually tried out Finnish-Japanese girl names just to take a look. There were some pretty good bilingual ones, like Erika, Mari, Marika and Sara. However, there was quite a bit of names that I'd be really hesitant to use. Aili, Alisa, Elina, Lina, Lumi. If you know a thing or two about Japanese, you might realise a common failure with these names. There was also the user suggestion of "Minna". It seems that it's r…

Out of curiosity, what’s the issue with those names in Japanese?

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by Angeo34 »

samatman wrote: post #43
mc32 wrote: post #17

I prefer the ones that have translations like: John. Ian, Ivan, Jan, Johan, Aidan, Juan, Joao, etc. Charles, Matthew, Katherine, Ann, and so on so you have an actual name with a standard accepted translation in many languages. French seems like the language which has quite a bit of names either translated or transliterated into other languages -perhaps due to proximity as well as influence.

My name (Sam) is useful in that respect: I'm fairly sure it exists in every European language, being Biblical, and that it's spelled the same (in short form) in all of them. The vast majority can't pronounce it correctly by the standards of my American dialect. But I don't mind.

>European language Hindi, Persian, Bengali and the likes are all European languages and I don't think those languages have the name Sam.
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