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themynnx··on Show HN: "What the fuck should I name my child?"
Hm. Interesting problem without an easy solution.

I suppose there's one option that those mothers have which is, please forgive me if this is stating the obvious, to use one of a million other baby naming sites instead of a personal hobby-project that probably won't even get popular enough to show up on their radar.

themynnx··on Show HN: "What the fuck should I name my child?"
Point taken.

It uses the US Social Security Administration's list of baby names from 2012 and does a weighted random selection, so that more popular baby names chosen in 2012 are more likely to be chosen (but less popular ones still come through pretty often.)

The gender-neutral names work similarly, by finding the intersection of boy/girl names in that dataset and weights the names by the popularity of the name and the evenness of the boy/girl distribution.

themynnx··on Rackspace Reduces Cloud Files Storage Price by 33%
There's always JungleDisk: https://www.jungledisk.com/