Means "grace of Ba'al" from Phoenician hann "grace" combined with the name of the god Ba'al. Hannibal was the Carthaginian general who threatened Rome during the Second Punic War in the 3rd century BC.
We use a combination of data from the internet, and our own Machine Learning models to make these predictions.
In a gist, we use a Machine Learning model trained on a diverse global dataset of 100m+ names, and use it to predict different traits for a person based on first name!
NameGuessr guesses a person's nationality, age, and gender based on their name. We also try to give insightful info around the name's origin, name meaning, and name pronounciation.