04-23-2013, 12:23 PM
Not sure if this would be of interest to anyone but I have an excel file I use to randomly generate names, using a list of c53k first names and c155k surnames covering a wide range of possible names, if you would be interested in adding a Random name button I would be happy to provide the lists in a suitable format?
When I built the list I didn't intend for it to grow so large so I made no attempt to seperate out the names by any criteria including Gender so it is really a random list!
Compiled from all over the place, common name lists, old census information (some of the best content came from the US and UK census information from turn of the 20th Century). No duplicates although there may be the occasional duff entry or multiple spellings of certain names as I have not attempted to proof read it.
Currently I use a set of look ups to generate full names with random chance of a double barrelled surname.
When I built the list I didn't intend for it to grow so large so I made no attempt to seperate out the names by any criteria including Gender so it is really a random list!
Compiled from all over the place, common name lists, old census information (some of the best content came from the US and UK census information from turn of the 20th Century). No duplicates although there may be the occasional duff entry or multiple spellings of certain names as I have not attempted to proof read it.
Currently I use a set of look ups to generate full names with random chance of a double barrelled surname.