Rating site for baby name recommendations?

December 26, 2011 3:58 PM

I'm looking for the Pandora or Netflix of baby names. I want a recommendation engine that will let me rate or rank potential names and then offer suggestions based on what I liked.

I've done some searching through old MeFi threads and Google and can't find anything like what I'm looking for. I can't be the first person to have this idea, can I?

If one doesn't exist, I'd settle for some pointers to the best kinds of algorithms to use for this, so that I can code something up on my own. (I've already seen this thread on stack overflow)

posted by chrisamiller to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Have you seen nameberry.com? (sorry I don't know how to link on my phone)
posted by katie at 4:03 PM on December 26, 2011

The folks at either have this or would probably be interested in such a thing.
posted by Sara C. at 4:04 PM on December 26, 2011

Ugh, that link is supposed to lead to Baby Name Wizard. Sorry.
posted by Sara C. at 4:05 PM on December 26, 2011

Nymblr is close to what you want.
posted by k8t at 4:17 PM on December 26, 2011 [1 favorite]

Www.nymbler.com
posted by k8t at 4:57 PM on December 26, 2011 [2 favorites]

You can run names through wolframalpha, as well. Some interesting statistics show up there for given names.
posted by jquinby at 4:59 PM on December 26, 2011

Oh jeez... My nameberry suggestion above is totally irrelevant; nymbler is what I meant to say. It's sleep deprivation from having 2 kids under the age of 2 (which is why I know about these sites!).
posted by katie at 5:45 PM on December 26, 2011