Any d/l-able list of given names and their meanings?

By Ron Savage on July 11, 2012 5:53 AM

Hi Folks

By googling I found many sites, but they all require you to click on a long list of links to step through the alphabet, so I'm thinking: Ask first, and as a last resort write a scraper.

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Toby Inkster | July 11, 2012 2:41 PM | Reply

This has names and their origins, but not their meanings...
http://www.lexique.org/public/Prenoms100.zip

Toby Inkster | July 11, 2012 5:34 PM | Reply

Also, try playing around with http://dbpedia.org/sparql. The following query seems to give pretty good results...

SELECT $name $abstract
WHERE {
  $r a yago:FirstName106337307 .
  $r dbpprop:name $name .
  $r dbpedia-owl:abstract $abstract .
  FILTER( lang($abstract) = "en" )
}
LIMIT 100

Ron Savage | July 12, 2012 12:41 AM | Reply

Hi Toby

$many x $thanx;

Steven Haryanto replied to comment from Ron Savage | July 12, 2012 2:39 PM | Reply

Perhaps you meant $thanks x $many :)

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I try to write all code in Perl, but find I end up writing in bash, CSS, HTML, JS, and SQL, and doing database design, just to get anything done...

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