dasdachs / name-db

A multilingual collection of names from around the world

name-db

name-db is a collection of names in all languages. Our goal is to collect as much data as we can, and to provide an open-source free API for name translations.

Specs

name-db currently stores only first names, in a UTF-8 JSON format. names.json is an array of name objects. Each name object has the following structure:

{
    "name": "", // English name
    "meaning": "", // The meaning of the name, in English
    "translations": {
        "{language code}": "{translation}" 
    }
}

The language codes are ISO 639-3 codes. For a list of lanauge codes, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-3_codes

Note that everything except the translations should be in English.

Contribution (Easy PR, large impact!)

Making a contribution is real easy - just read the specs, and do one of these:

• Add your name (if it doesn't exist yet)
• Add a translation to existing name
• Add meanings to existing names
• Correct translations / meanings
• Come up with a way we can do things better, and create an issue

Just fork the repository, do one of the tasks above, make a pull request and we'll approve it.