Saturday, March 7, 2009

Welcome to namemasher!

namemasher is THE ultimate name generator. I wanted to create a name generator that could take two names or words and mash them up to create new mashed up names/words. A Google search for a tool that could take "Ben" and "Jennfier" and spit out "Bennifer" or "Brad" and "Angelina" to create "Brangelina", came up short. So I had to create one myself.

My goals with this name generator:
  • It had to be able to create "Bennifer", "Brangelina", and "TomKat" as those were the baseline tests
  • It had to intelligently generate every combination of mashed up names, not just one name
  • It had to be intelligent enough to detect "bad" names vs "good" names
  • It had to be fun and easy to use
namemasher is not just a tool for creating these celebrity uni-names, as they're sometimes called. It can also be used to create new portmanteau words. A portmanteau is a combination of two words, such as picture+dictionary to create "pictionary".

So try it out and let me know what you think. And have fun!

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