The names seem to be all Anglo. Which is fine, if that's the target audience, but these names would be weird for someone of Indian/Asian/Middle-Eastern/Russian/Eastern-European etc (i.e. plenty of places where you wouldn't call a boy 'Henry')
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.
While I normally encourage sarcasm, I'm not sure that most glowing mothers-to-be will appreciate the flippant tone of this site, used for a task they will deem highly important.
I suppose the contrast is kind of funny, though at the risk of alienating those who would need it most.
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.
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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.
I suppose the contrast is kind of funny, though at the risk of alienating those who would need it most.
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.