Seymour Butts) and how much judgment-filled side-eye other parents will likely give me and my husband.
(At one point I really liked Lulu Bear, but my husband vetoed that one.)
Billed as a Tinder-like baby name app,babynameis pretty simple.
Ideally, you end up with alist of boy and girl baby namesthat you both truly like.
I had pretty high hopes for the whole process.
To give you an example: While writing this, I just swiped left on Theodorus and Folkert.
Folkert: That’s not one you hear every day.
before you find your matches.
For example, Folkert is aGerman baby nameand means “strong, brave people.”
it’s possible for you to also buy all five at once for $2.99.
(I bought them all.)
The celebrity filter brought up names of various celebrities.
With each name, you get a short sentence about a famous celebrity with that name.
A lot of the name-to-celebrity matches are not what you would expect.
I don’t even know who the latter is.
And is THE shit."
The one for Jennifer Lopez ended in “And is super hot.”
If you want a laugh, load the app and pay $0.99 for the celebrity filter.
The other four filters had problems of their own.
I cant even guess how the app creators chose baby names for the hipster category.
Some of the options were Savannah, Kira, Simon, Charles and Maria.
(Raise your hand if you’re not sure what makes those particular names more hipster than others.)
Ive already swiped through a few hundred names while watching Netflix.
