Built something very similar some time ago when my sister was pregnant.
https://generate-name.net/popular-names
Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
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Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
“Jacob Rees-Mogg announces birth of his sixth child, Sixtus” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/05/jacob-rees-...
Unlike the other examples in this thread, I'll give you credit for that one.
Interestingly the article shows a way for upper-class people to signal upper-class-ness through names. The other kids all have a normal given name, and can easily fly under the radar. But once you start saying all of their first names, it's a clear signal.
(Because it is in line with how many European royals name their children.)
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#373Congrats to you and your family :)
If you're taking requests, a filter by country would serve great. While I loved the concept and the way it's executed, I wish it becomes contextual for me.
Also, back button interaction closes the app. If you can fix that too.
All in all, loved the app. :D
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#374Congrats to you and your family :) If you're taking requests, a filter by country would serve great. While I loved the concept and the way it's executed, I wish it becomes contextual for me. Also, back button interaction closes the app. If you can fix that too. All in all, loved the app. :D
To add another point, will it be feasible to have the meaning of the name in the details. Or a redirection to external link where meaning of the name can be searched?
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
None of these people are upper-class?
> None of these people are upper-class?
In the usual sense used in the US, they’d mostly be above the upper middle class and into the upper class.
In the more theoretically grounded system otherwise used when discussing capitalist societies, they’d still all be, at birth, be at least petit bourgeois, so the idea that such names are clear indication of membership in the “lower classes” is only even possibly true of capitalist classes in the narrowest possible sense (“not of the haut bourgeoisie”, though even that is a stretch), or maybe if you are speaking of vestigial pre-capitalist class systems, and still just as narrowly (“not the titled nobility”).
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Please do whatever the hell you want. Indeed. Especially if you want to piss off potensial users/customers. > There's a difference between asking a question, making a suggestion and shoving ideals down somebody's throat. Unfortunately, the "ideal" for many is to have an app for their - well - app, or service, whatever it might be. Usually it's just a perfectly functioning responsive web service that is turned to a…
All your arguments hold if this was something the developper was trying to grow (commercially or not). Given this is clearly just an app made for their own use and scratch an itch... Taking about pleasing potential users/customers and how you'd have to be forced to install this app is more or less off-topic.
> Taking about pleasing potential users/customers and how you'd have to be forced to install this app is more or less off-topic.
Then why make an app out of something that would work just as well with something I have already installed on my phone?
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#377I always liked short names and I wish my parents named me so.
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#378This 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…
My son was born on a friday and we didn't have to finish the paperwork until monday, so naturally the indecision continued through the weekend. We called him 'Buddy' until Monday, when we ended up going with the name we were leaning toward anyway.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#379This 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…
Nice, and congrats. I was actually in the process of writing an app when we were expecting, so I downloaded the US Census CSV of names to import, and when I perused the file I saw a couple names I liked, asked my wife, and we picked one before I ever had to write any code!
I completely forgot I had done this, but I also got the census CSVs and wrote a script to spit out 10 random selections at a time, with optional middle name and our last names appended to each. I also included optional stats for each name on their popularity ranking for certain years. I came up with a short list of five or ten, compared lists with my partner, and the one name that our lists had in common was the winner.
The script and CSVs ultimately ended up not making a big difference in the decision (it was a significant name from my family) but the process was fun and yielded some interesting results.
Re: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
#380A tip my parents and their parent(s) have done is to pick historical figures or characters from books.