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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 hliyan »

hluska wrote: post #215
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…

My daughter was almost named “to be determined”. We went out for lunch one day and this woman at a table beside us was talking about her granddaughter. Her granddaughter sounded like a great kid and when she (finally) said her granddaughter’s name, my partner and I gave each other a look. That was the name… I wish your app had existed then - it would have been easier than the grand email list o’ names we shared with…

I think some names are actually born this way: "Tibidy"

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Post by joe-collins »

disintegore wrote: post #26

I've always loved the term "baby name". Makes it seem like you grow out of it eventually and have to switch to an adult name like "Roger" or "Raymond".

Speaking as a "Joseph", there was a definite "Joey" phase as a kid, followed by an ongoing "Joe" phase, while "Joseph" is retained for Very Adult/Formal contexts. But maybe not everyone has such multifunctional names.

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Post by valryon »

Nice work!

Had the same issue for the second kid and came to the same conclusion I needed an app for that.

I never shared it but I’m happy with my “trouve prénom” French only site, based on INSEE names statistics.

If you’re curious: http://trouveprenoms.azurewebsites.net/

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

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Post by euske »

I hope that the app makes it clear which country/culture it applies to. (I assume it's for a European-origin family in the US?)

We recently had a kid, and in case of our native culture (Japan), people want to pick a name that not only sounds good, but also carries "good fortune" in its characters... based on ancient literature or something (it's kind of feng shui, I guess). The shape of the letters also kind of matters. Note that Chinese characters not only carry sounds but also represent a meaning (ideogram) that adds to the complexity. Also in Japanese many characters tend to have multiple readings. So there are tons of websites where you can search kids name with various conditions (sound, meaning, shape, strokes, popularity, etc), and they look pretty popular.

My point is that, the requirements and restrictions of names differ vastly between cultures, and the app can be clear about it.

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Post by renaudg »

hamaluik wrote: post #94
Fiahil wrote: post #86

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…

I second the request for being able to upload a custom list. Looking for dual culture/language names at the moment and it isn't easy :)

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

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

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…

back in 2016 when we had a kid born in our immediate family, i wanted to geek out fully with a excel list of popular names and i wanted a way to do "let me randomly pick a name out of the list by say 5000 random tries and the final outcome would be selected. unfortunately excel proved to be difficult, = tried randbetween and some more stuff but could not get it working. in the end, the selection was done like cavemen, by using a book, uh

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

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Post by boopmaster »

I personally cringe when I hear any vocalization of the nametag I happen to have been assigned. Not a fan of this noise where some old bag gets to slap a label on a new shiny baby that is unwittingly subscribed to happily responding to that specific cacophony for a lifetime.

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Post by Boltgolt »

boopmaster wrote: post #348

I personally cringe when I hear any vocalization of the nametag I happen to have been assigned. Not a fan of this noise where some old bag gets to slap a label on a new shiny baby that is unwittingly subscribed to happily responding to that specific cacophony for a lifetime.

Would you prefer young children picking their own name?

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Post by jokethrowaway »

boogies wrote: post #142
zorked wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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".

Because you can already `shuf -n 1 /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx` (or mnames for male ones) or `vis-menu /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx >> momlikednames.list`, and `cat {mom,dad}likednames.list | sort | uniq -d` to find names both parents like. `shuf /usr/share/dict/words` was how I picked my HN username.

That's exactly what we did, albeit the final list was filtered by grandma as well, non digitally
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