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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.
> 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.
I downloaded it recently to dig for names that start with vowels. I wound up loading it in a SQLite database.
Nice work with the decade filter. I feel your pain with that one. I wound up dumping all the years from when "Nevaeh" spiked onward as a quick and dirty clean. This also cleared out the flood of -aidens and some awkward recent trends.
After all that, my wife hated every name I suggested from my efforts :) Still a lot of fun to play with the data and watch how the trends change. Like you can find when "Ashley" declines as a male name and rises as a female name.
There's something about picking the names for your kids that is just so fun and special. For those of you for whom this app may be relevant, I hope you have even half as much fun as my wife and I did picking names. Ever since my wife was little, she had a particular name chosen for her son. So when we got pregnant, we already knew what the boy name would be. But we had fun coming up with a girl name, and that fun was…
Sighing, my wife said, "We need a sign."
Just at that moment, we pulled into the London station, where a giant, 5 meter high sign announced "VICTORIA"...
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Congratulations on both the baby and the launch of the app! There's actually a need-gap for 'Suggest unique pronounceable baby names' posted on my problem validation platform[1]. Although I'm not sure how the uniqueness metric could be added to app, You're welcomed to post Nom de Bébé there in the comments to reach out to those who need it. Edit: Since the main goal of a unique name seems to be email id, social media…
Problem validation is a brilliant idea. Unique names though… there’s a certain safety in numbers that a common name affords. A unique name is very easy to target in searches.
The first name gives anonymity. The middle gives uniqueness that is rarely used except when you want the full formal name and want to be sure you have the right person.
There's something about picking the names for your kids that is just so fun and special. For those of you for whom this app may be relevant, I hope you have even half as much fun as my wife and I did picking names. Ever since my wife was little, she had a particular name chosen for her son. So when we got pregnant, we already knew what the boy name would be. But we had fun coming up with a girl name, and that fun was…
My wife and I were trying to think of a middle name that my grandmother would approve of. We were heading back from Gatwick and hadn't come up with anything. Sighing, my wife said, "We need a sign." Just at that moment, we pulled into the London station, where a giant, 5 meter high sign announced "VICTORIA"...
I too wrote code to help with picking baby names with each of my children. Popular but not too popular was a hard requirement when bisecting the SSN data base. One hard thing was not realizing how many variants there were of the name we picked for my daughter. We ended up picking a more popular name than we sort of intended. Naming twins was also extra hard because of the added requirement that the 2 names were of si…
When the baby is finally old enough and ask "Dad/Mom, why did you name me as xxx?", and you answer "oh, it's from that app the dude on HN wrote.", imagine how would he/she feel XD
There's something about picking the names for your kids that is just so fun and special. For those of you for whom this app may be relevant, I hope you have even half as much fun as my wife and I did picking names. Ever since my wife was little, she had a particular name chosen for her son. So when we got pregnant, we already knew what the boy name would be. But we had fun coming up with a girl name, and that fun was…
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.
He's still the only Archer at his school though. (no, I hadn't even watched the Archer TV series or heard about it, but one day I will...)