Bilingual baby name finder

Authored by mixedname.com and submitted by bemmu
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See the names in common between two languages to find one that works in both.

Perfect for parents from two different language backgrounds looking for a bilingual cross-language compatible name for their baby.

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When our Japanese-Finnish son was born, we wanted to find a name that would work in both languages. To help with the search I wrote a simple tool for personal use to look through all the names in both Japanese and Finnish, finding ones which appear in both.

Thinking others might find it useful as well, years later I went back and improved it to the point that I could release it online, which is the page you are now on.

This tool currently supports 41 different languages or cultures. For example if you are German and your wife is Klingon, it can tell you that the only name option is "Arne". In other words, it finds the intersection of two name lists. Some languages don't have many options, so it also tries a fuzzy search and some other strategies as well.

Since all of these are found by software, there are no guarantees that the names are any good (for instance it sometimes suggests "Timo" for an Italian name, which wouldn't be great), so it is intended to only give you ideas to consider.

Hope you like it. Oh, and here are the Japanese-Finnish names it found for us. We ended up going with a completely unique one that wasn't in the list, but just having a list to work with was a nice start for our name brainstorming session!

Suggestions or just want to say hi?

goodboysodak on August 26th, 2020 at 15:21 UTC »

So cool! Do you think you could add a 'reverse search' feature where I could input a name and it would tell me what languages it's compatible with?

RideWithMeSNV on August 26th, 2020 at 15:05 UTC »

OK. I guess I'll be naming my half Klingon daughter Mara.

mathbread on August 26th, 2020 at 15:02 UTC »

Tried it with English and Korean, not so good for that combination