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Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by msikora »

samatman wrote: post #72
jdmichal wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to reinforce the point: Those are all part of the INDO -European language group. Emphasis on the fact that European is only half that name, and you're enumerating languages in the other half.

To really flog on it, Hungarian isn't Indo-European at all, and Sámuel is a Hungarian name. I'd bet you'll find it among Copts and the Ethiopian Orthodox as well, which is also not in contradiction to what I said.

Samuel is really the perfect name as even the spelling is the same in all European languages except for diacritics in some languages. My name, Michal (Slovak), is not too bad, but the local version varies greatly across Europe: Michael, Michele, Mikael, Miguel, Михаил (Michail), Mihái, etc.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by richrichardsson »

jlawson wrote: post #8

Very interesting. How did you develop the name lists for each language?

It would certainly appear to be scraped (see "Name sources:" at the bottom of the page), and that there hasn't been any human curation.

eg.

Masculine English names that may also be Croatian words:

Blagdan

This is more likely a surname than a given name.

And I'm not sure how names like Ivo and Kristofor can be considered in the intersection of English/Croatian.

Having said all that, I think it's still a useful resource, and I don't wish this to come across as putting it down.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by Markoff »

msikora wrote: post #78

Well, my use case is Slovak and Romanian (but living in the USA). Missing both languages :( I can approximate Slovak with Czech almost perfectly, but Romanian names are quite different from related (Romance) languages...

why though? i had Romanian colleague named Victor, sounds perfectly passable name in most languages, I'm sure there are plenty international Romanian names

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by msikora »

msikora wrote: post #78

Well, my use case is Slovak and Romanian (but living in the USA). Missing both languages :( I can approximate Slovak with Czech almost perfectly, but Romanian names are quite different from related (Romance) languages...

BTW we named are son Eugene for family reasons. We chose the English spelling as for the time being we live in the USA. The Slovak version is "Eugen" and Romanian version is "Eugeniu".

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by cco »

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…

> Finally we ended up with Riya for my daughter (which is pronounced the same as the English name Rhea) and Aarav for my son, which is pronounced the same as two of the most common English words, "are" and "of."

Native English speaker from the Pacific Northwest, I would pronounce those "Ri-yuh" and "Are-rov"(I think your intended pronunciation) or maybe "A-rav", depends upon whether I knew they were of Indian decent, i.e. Rohan is "Roe-hon" not "Roe-han".

Forgive my "colloquial" phonetic annotation, I don't know how to do it properly.

Re: MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

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Post by msikora »

Markoff wrote: post #95
msikora wrote: post #78

Well, my use case is Slovak and Romanian (but living in the USA). Missing both languages :( I can approximate Slovak with Czech almost perfectly, but Romanian names are quite different from related (Romance) languages...

why though? i had Romanian colleague named Victor, sounds perfectly passable name in most languages, I'm sure there are plenty international Romanian names

I was referring to the app that didn't have Slovak nor Romanian... Yeah, most Christian names are going to have similar names across Europe. Victor is a good one since it varies very little, I think it's Victor or Viktor in most European languages.
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