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Baby Name Predictor
Personalized name recommendations from family preferences and naming trends.
Baby Name Predictor
Explore my wife's name ratings and predicted favorites.
Start with the ratings summary, then explore favorites and predicted recommendations.
- Choose Girls, Boys, or All to update the summary statistics and name lists.
- Select a distribution bar to filter Rated names; clear the rating chip to see all scores.
- Switch between Recommendations and Rated names, then search, sort, and page through every result.
- Summary statistics always describe all rating entries in the selected group. Open Data and method for source details.
STAR Summary
- Situation
- My wife asked me to suggest baby names. I wanted something that learns her taste instead of guessing.
- Task
- Create personalized baby-name recommendations from recorded preferences and historical naming trends.
- Action
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- Aggregated SSA baby-name records (1880-present) and engineered trend features.
- Built a simple 'quiz' script to collect like/dislike labels.
- Trained several models and averaged their scores to produce recommendations.
- Result
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- Generated personalized top 50 name lists for boys and girls.
- Helped us narrow the list when naming our child.
