My wife and I have named three kids — twin boys, then a daughter — so I've spent real time on the wrong end of most baby-name sites: ad-choked lists you scroll alone. NameBayBay starts from the real situation instead. It's a two-person decision, and the interesting product problem is helping a couple converge, not just browse. Save names, compare shortlists, and decide together.
Underneath is the full U.S. Social Security Administration names dataset — 50,000+ names with meanings, origins, popularity trends over time, and famous bearers. The data is the moat: not a hand-curated list of a few hundred, but the whole distribution, which is what lets the popularity and trend views actually mean something.
"The naming isn't a search problem. It's a negotiation. The product should hold both people's shortlists, not just one person's."
Honest status: the dataset is loaded, the browse and save experience works, and paid features are wired through Stripe. It's in active development — a real app in progress, not a launched-and-forgotten one.