First of all, I haven't tried the app yet, but I'm excited to see it exists. It's exactly like an app idea that I wrote down when I was picking baby names for my kids. They're 6 and 9 now, so obviously I haven't gotten around to making it.

One piece that I had in mind to implement that I don't see in this one yet is the ability to use some machine learning or other creative mechanism to recommend names based on others that I've "liked". I'm hoping that would allow a gigantic list of names to be processed more quickly by essentially prioritizing them.

As I see it, names can be related to other names in various ways...

• they sound somewhat alike
• they have a similar construct (double consonant, similar suffix, etc.)
• they are associated by era (i.e. they were each among the most popular names in the early 1900's)