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hamaluik / nomdebebe

A simple, private tool to help pick a baby name.
Apache License 2.0
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Bring other open data name sources in #1

Open louim opened 3 years ago

louim commented 3 years ago

Hey, It would be nice to have sources from other languages / regions too.

As an example, the Quebec government publishes open data for both boys and girl names:

This would bring french names to the mix. Just throwing the idea out there.

Kyle-Falconer commented 3 years ago

Feel free to use my names list which I compiled from several sources, and ends up being over 50k names. Most of the names in the list are from Indian origin, just because that was what I was looking for, but there are also other lists included so it should be a good mix:

https://github.com/Kyle-Falconer/namegen

The source file contains information such as origin and meaning.

The combined names list is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kyle-Falconer/namegen/master/name_lists/names_merged.json

nathanscully commented 3 years ago

Some Australian lists:

Due to the large variety of names I can see combining lists getting out of hand and ranking becoming difficult. Perhaps there should only be one list active at a time, with the current being a default set but the user can select an alternative list from the options menu or provide a link/upload a list if they want to use a personal one?