Nice idea. A couple of usability suggestions:
Add the search parameters to the URL query string so that the it can be copied and pasted.
Populate the form with the last selected values, rather than resetting them.
MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder
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#202I'm french, my wife is Italian, and we live in england. Any plan for trilingual names :D
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#203This is an important problem; my parents decided to give us each two names while one of my uncles and his wife chose the “same name in both languages“ approach — for the first two kids, but were stumped and gave up for the third. My wife and I had an n-ary problem — not just the languages of all of her and all of my relatives (about five) but also the country we were living in. We finally whittled it down to phonemes…
The name Kevin in Germany is a meme and not viewed positively. It’s regularly made fun of and to call someone a Kevin is a bit of an insult.
Same in France. I guess that takes it root to that name being given by parents raised by (shitty) television programs such as "The Bold and the Beautiful" and other crap like that. "A Kevin" is expected to be a sort of wannabe Chad, trying to be cool but failing miserably at it, pretentious with nothing to back it up etc. Likely to be a troll on the internet.
(this is purely based on an introspection of what a Kevin means to me and is in no mean backed up by thorough research). (also sorry to any Kevin out there).
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Having no Japanese language skills I pasted that into Google translate. Then inserted spaces between glyphs until one part of it (vich) translated as "bitch". Aside: there are a lot of languages where /b/ and /v/ move around. Eg. Romance languages during the vulgar Latin period. Today in Spanish these are pronounced identically.
マンコビッチ == MA-N-KO-BI-CCHI manko is slang for vagina. bicchi is borrowed from English "bitch", but is used more like English "slut" That said, those Russians could've used ヴィッチ WI-CCHI, such as in https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3... So why does Mankovich use BI but Markovich uses WI ? Because expecting katakana spellings to make sense is already too much to ask for, let along expecting them…
I wonder if Russia's ever offered Japan a better, more central location for their embassy. In Yakimanka district.
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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.
Unfortunately, at least in bulgarian Samuel is spelled Samuil (Самуил). Not sure about russian and ukrainian, but they've gotten the slavic translation of the Bible from medieval Bulgaria and a fast ddg shows the family form to exists as "Самуилович".
We have Samuil, but it's more common among Russian Jews than ethnic Russians.
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Hopefully your surname isn't easily mistaken for a given name. I've been living in Hong Kong almost 9 years now, and my middle name is often mistaken for my first name, or less commonly, my surname. Based on my experience, "Lee Ryan" would probably be mistaken for "Ryan Lee" well over 50% of the time.
It is - and sometimes I get called by middle name instead of either of the other names. In e-mails the failure rate for people getting my name in the right order is around 80% - sometimes even after I've corrected the sender three or four times (with decreasing subtly)
In the international company I work for we have a rule that surnames are always in all caps in employee directories. So it can be "Ryan LEE" or "LEE, Ryan" or "LEE Ryan" (in Hungary), but you know that Lee is the family name.
Before that rule was introduced, confusion was commonplace. A colleague of mine is called, say, Vyacheslav Spirin, and he signed his emails as "V. Spirin". To Indians this looked like a normal South Indian name, where "V." was the family name, so they assumed his first name was Spirin. When the same guy introduced himself in person as Slava they thought he and Spirin were different people.
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#207I'm french, my wife is Italian, and we live in england. Any plan for trilingual names :D
Don't pick Andrea, Michele or Daniele :D
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#208English/Russian: I see names that work in Russian, and names that work in English, and very few that actually work in both.
Hm, quite the contrary experience, I've found that list to be mostly working. Btw, a year ago I and my wife picked a name for our baby daughter, and the criteria for a name to 'work' in both English and Russian was high on the list. Her name is present in English / Russian list, so on basis of this one test I declare the service working correctly.
It suggests Brody and Oral as mixed names for Ru/En, but doesn't offer Philip/Филипп. It's good, but not very good.
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#209Interesting idea!
One small improvement comes to mind after trying some language combinations – the chosen languages could be (pre)selected on the results page under the heading "Find names for a different language pair", so that it would be easier to try different languages combinations while keeping one language constant.
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#210Extending this to regions seems like it could be a useful next step here. I’m from the U.K. and my partner is Australian. While almost all names I’ve encountered in Australia are known names in the U.K., some would be very out-there for a U.K. name. I’m sure the same is true the other way around. Not to mention the fact that this seems to be using an American English set of names and there are some very different nam…
Interesting, do you have any examples of the out-there names?
"Randy" would be one that I see Americans have as a name that causes chuckles in most of the rest of the English speaking world.