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

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ikornaselur wrote: post #15
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?

Not sure about Sweden, but in Iceland there's a naming committee that has to approve names not already on the approved list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee It does look like there's a similar thing in Sweden though

To add: I think this is to make sure the name can be declined into the noun cases necessary to make sentences in Icelandic.

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

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Post by bklyn11201 »

msoad wrote: post #41

Has anyone named their child with an accent character like è in the US? Have you run into any issues? What your experience has been?

You will run into mountains of issues with USA systems if you insist on using the è. You will fill out physical paperwork at the hospital. How will it be translated by the typists and OCR? Passport matching against the airline information. Will it match? School enrollment: will all the username systems be ready for the UTF-8 character?

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

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Post by V-2 »

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?

I don't know about Sweden, but it is the case in my native Poland.

In fact, I think it's much more common than full liberty in this regard.

As for the level of strictness - it's always a bit arbitrary, and there are no fool-proof guidelines, nor a predefined whitelist.

Generally speaking, however, the name cannot be ridiculous, humiliating, offensive, it must be in a full form (not affectionate) etc.

Among the rejected ones there have been "Rambo" and "Joint".

There were parents who tried "Wiedźmin" (Witcher), to no avail, but they succeeded eventually with a compromise, a slightly altered "Wiedzimin". Not a real name, but kinda sounds like it might be (sort of similar to Lithuanian Giedymin), and by itself not a popculture reference, which apparently was what the office considered frivolous/inappropriate.

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

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Post by jdwyah »

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…

Congrats! The mutual agreement part is fun stuff. And yay for overkill software! I 100% used my ForceRank.it tool to try to align on names. For us we wanted 2 middle names so there was real combinatorial explosion ;)

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Post by throwawaygh »

msoad wrote: post #41

Has anyone named their child with an accent character like è in the US? Have you run into any issues? What your experience has been?

Most states won't even allow you to give you child a name with a diacritical mark.

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

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Post by efsavage »

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…

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!

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

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Post by hamaluik »

azalemeth wrote: post #53
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?

Thanks! She mostly humours me and tries to keep the eye-rolling to a minimum. Her feedback drove most of the features and bug fixes and we're actively using it right now.

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

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Post by Minor49er »

A lot of the features being suggested below, such as origins, spellings, saving names, etc, are available on https://babynames.com/. However, they only have the site and not an app.

Not trying to detract from the project. I was just curious if there was something that covered these that was already out there

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

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Post by sillysaurusx »

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…

I was scrolling through your app, looking at the names, and I was like “this is cool, but a popularity graph would be cooler.” Then I started wondering why some names were blue or red, so I tapped one, and it brought up a popularity graph.

Well done. You’ve officially made a baby name app that doesn’t suck. Quite the opposite — haha, I just noticed there’s a dark mode too. Ok, between the custom dark mode and the hilarious name, this is the best damn baby name app on the planet.

Thank you!

Oh yeah, congrats on the kiddo. :)

(A feature request: it’d be nice if the explore list could be filtered by decade. The decade filter doesn’t seem to update it right now, only the swiper.)

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Post by Macuyiko »

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…

Congrats! A friend of mine did the exact same thing and built namesilike.com. Looks very similar in fact but uses a machine learning model to help rank the names.
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