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Re:Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-nam... by Someone on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:36PM (#29123829)
Because everybody knows how trivial it is to curl/wget the list from https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html, unzip it, etc.

The list is biased. Not only does it only have U.S. births, but also only those where the individual has a Social Security Number. I wonder how many the latter rules out.

For privacy, it also drops names that are rare, with fewer than 5 births in a given year.

(App is open source, so it’s easy to discover that’s where the names come from. See https://github.com/hamaluik/nomdebebe/blob/main/app/NAMES.md)

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