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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 swexbe »

Mayzie wrote: post #328
henrikschroder wrote: post #326

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> Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names. Such as? In my experience, upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, usually a bit on the conservative side, nothing that sticks out too much. Never crazy spelling, never unique names.

> Such as? In my experience upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, ... Never crazy spelling, never unique names. X Æ A-12 Musk? Never say never.

A name like that screams new money / no roots to me.

There is a big difference between uncommon names but with deep roots like the above mentioned Sixtus and completely unique names X Æ A-12.

The former is very common in the upper classes, the latter not so much.

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

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Post by speleding »

Auracle wrote: post #334
henrikschroder wrote: post #286

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It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Also, the number of people who hate their "unique and quirky" name they got from their parents is much, much, much, much higher than the number of people who hate their normal name.

I have a unique name and it’s served me well in life, for what it’s worth. People tend to remember you, although that’s perhaps going to change with more children having unique names.

I concur. I have a unique first name that's simply two common names concatenated with a dash. If I'm worried about the impression or pronunciation I can simply use half of it.

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

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Post by jquery »

veb wrote: post #300
epage wrote: post #283

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Girl names are been relatively fun but boy names have been a challenge. The options feel limited if you want one that isn't overdone but isn't ... strange.

My son was born in 2013. For some reason I immediately blurted out "Archer" when we found out we were having a boy. My wife did not like it, I loved the name! I kept referring to him as Archer, and then soon she couldn't think of him as anything other than Archer, haha. It's a great name and it suits him so well, and it's unique enough (it was not a popular name back in 2012-2013) but I'm seeing it become more popula…

Archer is also the main hero protagonist of the incredibly popular (globally) and sprawling Fate series, which you should also check out, starting with Fate/Stay Night.

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

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Post by jquery »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #196
aspaviento wrote: post #171

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> 3. If you are going to give them a middle name... Just don't do it. Nobody is going to use it and it will mess up when you have to fill forms.

We have used middle names to place our kids within their family, they are in some sense family names. Common uses of middle names in the UK include to give a child a name of a God-parent or other significant non-family person, or to record the mother's maiden name, or to give an alternative name a child can use (if they prefer that name) later in life without having to change their name, or to disambiguate (John Fred…

> give an alternative name a child can use (if they prefer that name) later in life without having to change their name

This is an underrated reason for a middle name.

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

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Post by boopmaster »

Boltgolt wrote: post #349
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?

I think that would actually be really rad. Yes.

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Post by loonster »

Fiahil wrote: post #119
hamaluik wrote: post #94

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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…

If you really want it, you could create a github repo with an alphabetically-sorted CSV list of baby names (one file per first letter). Describe the expected format, add a CI for validation and we (the people from the internet) will fill it out for you, according to the old open-source style :) EDIT: Btw, here is the same file for France, with a different format, of course : https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/25400…

When deciding on a name for my 2nd child, I wanted them to go together. I looked up which years were the most popular for my oldest, and looked at lists of names that were popular in that timeframe.

I think you could also use years to suggest names that neither parent has on their list. Based on names that the parents have liked, find out which decade was most popular. (Geometric Mean would probably be most useful to combine scores between parents).

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

henrikschroder wrote: post #326
dragonwriter wrote: post #288

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> It's also a dead give-away class marker of the lower classes. Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names.

> Plenty of upper- and middle-class babies with unique, or at least unusual, names. Such as? In my experience, upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, usually a bit on the conservative side, nothing that sticks out too much. Never crazy spelling, never unique names.

> Such as?

Moon Unit, Dweezil, and Diva Thin Muffin Zappa.

Raddix Madden

Lyra Antarctica Sheeran

Kal-El Coppola Cage

Pilot Inspektor Lee

Blue Ivy Carter

Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Busson

Aleph Portman-Millepied

Bear Blu Jarecki

Kulture Kiari Cephus

Sparrow James Midnight Madden

Exton Downey

Seargeoh Stallone

North, Saint, and Chicago West

Rumer, Scout and Tellulah Belle Willis

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Post by halitox40 »

henrikschroder wrote: post #332
Mayzie wrote: post #328

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> Such as? In my experience upper and upper-middle class kids get common names, ... Never crazy spelling, never unique names. X Æ A-12 Musk? Never say never.

Being rich doesn't make you upper class, evidently.

Maybe not in Europe (and that is arguable depending on the country). In the US it absolutely does.
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