How I Built a Baby Name Generator With 1900+ Names From 46 Cultures

Building a baby name tool sounds simple until you realize how much cultural nuance goes into it. Here's what I learned building BabyNamePick.com . The Data Challenge Most baby name databases are heavily biased toward English and Western European names. I wanted to cover 46 different cultural origins — from British and French to Mongolian, Tibetan, and Basque. The hardest part wasn't the code. It was the research. Each culture has different naming conventions: Korean names have specific hanja (Chinese character) meanings Arabic names often include honorifics Hawaiian names connect to nature and spirituality Basque names come from a language isolate with no known relatives Tech Stack Next.js with static export Tailwind CSS for styling Vercel for hosting JSON data file with 1900+ names SEO Strategy For a content site, SEO is everything. Here's what worked: 1. Category Pages Each of the 46 origins gets its own page. These target searches like "Irish baby names" or "Korean baby names for gi