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Comment by hamaluik | Hacker News Reader

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/limits.html

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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/2540004?sommaire=476726...

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).

A way to "upload" your own name list would be an incredible feature. Whether it is a .csv or a plain .txt with one name per line.

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 :)

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