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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by dagw » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:35 PM UTC

foobarian wrote: post #11

Speaking of names is it really true than in Sweden you have to get a baby name approved by some government office? How strict is that in practice?

Speaking of names is it really true than in Sweden you have to get a baby name approved by some government office

Basically. The Swedish IRS is responsible for keeping the register of all Swedish citizens and they have the power to refuse to register a name. The main rule is you are not allowed to give a child a name that can be seen as provocative, insulting or has a high risk of causing the child problems or humiliation in the future. The core legal principal behind is that parents are not allowed to cause their children potential harm with their choice of name and since the child cannot act their own advocate in this matter, the State has to.

Edit: The other type of name you are not allowed to give are names that are considered 'obvious' last names, as well as names that are primarily titles like "King", "Admiral" or "Captain".

And I found this list of all names that have been rejected over the past few years: https://www.motherhood.se/bebis-och-smabarn/namn-man-inte-fa... (scroll down to "Förnamn som fått avslag hos Skatteverket")

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by grvdrm » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:37 PM UTC

Have #2 on the way and a short list of names we like, but awesome! Good way to grab new suggestion in the case that one catches my attention more than the names we already like. Also, agree with the your comment elsewhere that this is something to do "when you have a few minutes to kill"

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by azalemeth » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

hamaluik wrote: post #2

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…

Congratulations! Out of curiosity, what does your wife think of this?

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by voisin » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC

It would be great to be able to make a judgment on all related names, like thumbs down or heart “William”, “Willy”, “Will” all at once.

Or to filter names by ethnic group?

Overall it is fantastic but I find 100k names to be daunting!

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by hamaluik » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC

lawlorino wrote: post #44

I would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to have to pick names that sound good in both languages. For this particular combination girl names aren't too rare but there's very few boy names that come to mind.

That's a great idea! Though I think it would take an awful lot of data-munging to get there. Friends of ours struggled with this exact thing, but with English & French.

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by throwawaygh » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

hamaluik wrote: post #25

koolba wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ultimately because I wanted an app. * I make enough web-based things for my job, and I enjoy developing in Flutter / Dart (what this was built in). * I’m never realistically going to be looking through names on a desktop; I use the app when I have a few minutes to kill in line or something where I can pull out my phone, decide on a few names, and then go back to what I was doing. I could build it as an offline web-ap…

Projects like this one are excellent for scratching an itch or learning a new platform. Low-pressure / "oh well" failure mode, fairly constrained scope, nothing too fancy, but enough of a "product" with utility to push you through the boring parts to the end.

It's also interesting how this question shifted over time! It used to be that people would ask why you made a Perl CGI or PHP app when you could've just made a desktop app.

ps: congrats on the new baby!

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by privacyonsec » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:41 PM UTC

congrats, maybe you can use qr-code scanning for linking instead of sharing code ?

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by 123pie123 » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:42 PM UTC

did you know that ...

>In England, Northern Ireland and Wales, the law requires you to register a birth within 42 days (GOV.UK, 2019a). In Scotland, a birth needs to be registered within 21 days

We couldn't think of a name that we both liked and went well over the 42 days to register the name, we got a court order around 120 days.

Jokingly I said to my partner you're the one that'll be going to court not me. She replied that's ok I'll name the baby after the first person I see.

We settled on a name and registered the (not very new) baby the next morning

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by ChrisKnott » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:43 PM UTC

hamaluik wrote: post #4

sharemywin wrote: post #3

is it like Tinder for baby names?

lol, I guess. I've never used Tinder but I suppose it is a decent comparison.

There is an app called Kinder that is this. You and partner both swipe names independently and it lets you know of any matches. It actually serves a social function of removing the factor of who's initial suggestion the name is.

Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

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Post by o_____________o » Fri, Nov 05, 2021, 2:43 PM UTC

lawlorino wrote: post #44

I would love something like this that returns the intersection of names found in two cultures. E.g. I am British and my partner is Finnish, if/when we have kids we'll have to have to pick names that sound good in both languages. For this particular combination girl names aren't too rare but there's very few boy names that come to mind.

https://mixedname.com/