Random person name generator • Hacker News Board

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by dredmorbius » Sat, May 30, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

sn_master wrote: post #38

I wonder what kind of validity checks they have. e.g. a lot of first/last names cannot be paired together because they would belong to different religions/ethnicities. Probably they're sticking with just Anglosaxon names where this is far less of a problem than Middle East/India ones.

Less "cannot" and more "are rarely". I've encountered a few odd mixes personally.

There are sources (US SSN and census especially) of first and last name frequency by decade, though not so much first/last pairings. Gender also.

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by dredmorbius » Sat, May 30, 2020, 7:52 PM UTC

keeblers_n_bits wrote: post #8

`rig` (random identity generator) on Linux is another useful tool for this

It has a very limited set of seed names (or did last I checked), though can be handy.

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by hapidjus » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:18 PM UTC

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #40

I sometimes use DDG for getting a UUID too :) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uuid&t=hj&ia=answer If you like that kind of things and you dig Python, the lib "faker" ( https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ ) is a real threat: from faker import Faker fake = Faker() fake.name() # 'Lucy Cechtelar' fake.address() # '426 Jordy Lodge # Cartwrightshire, SC 88120-6700' fake.text() # 'Sint velit eveniet. Rerum atque repellat volu…

This is the equivalent library for PHP https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by zaarn » Sat, May 30, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

For author and GMing purposes I can recommend https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ , which has been a huge help for running my weekly DnD seesions.

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by asutekku » Sat, May 30, 2020, 11:01 PM UTC

Memosyne wrote: post #24

voisin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t tell if this is /s or not, but have you considered a real life pen pal that writes back?

I have considered it before but I just don't trust real people enough to share my personal thoughts with them.

Just use a fake name with them. Like the one you would get from a generator.

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by thelibrarian » Sat, May 30, 2020, 11:21 PM UTC

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #40

I sometimes use DDG for getting a UUID too :) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uuid&t=hj&ia=answer If you like that kind of things and you dig Python, the lib "faker" ( https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ ) is a real threat: from faker import Faker fake = Faker() fake.name() # 'Lucy Cechtelar' fake.address() # '426 Jordy Lodge # Cartwrightshire, SC 88120-6700' fake.text() # 'Sint velit eveniet. Rerum atque repellat volu…

And this is the equivalent for Ruby:

https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Sun, May 31, 2020, 12:02 AM UTC

modinfo wrote: post #7

ASVVVAD wrote: post #2

Tip: can be easily accessed from your app using the DDG Answers API: https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=random+person+name+generator&i...

Here is my version of FakeID API: https://fakeid.now.sh/ All data from https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

Why are you not using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 for country codes?

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by perl4ever » Sun, May 31, 2020, 3:36 AM UTC

drusepth wrote: post #30

Is it just generating a random name and birthday? That seems... underwhelming compared to the hundreds of services that already exist for doing this (see: any of the results given to DDG's query) and generate a much more extensive dossier.

A good generator would come up with something ordinary sounding that doesn't correspond to any known person, I guess?

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by FlashBlaze » Sun, May 31, 2020, 5:14 AM UTC

Is there a list where I can find such quick results on DDG? Like for uuid, Markdown cheatsheet, chmod, etc

Re: Random person name generator

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Post by BiteCode_dev » Sun, May 31, 2020, 6:22 AM UTC

hapidjus wrote: post #43

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #40

I sometimes use DDG for getting a UUID too :) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uuid&t=hj&ia=answer If you like that kind of things and you dig Python, the lib "faker" ( https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ ) is a real threat: from faker import Faker fake = Faker() fake.name() # 'Lucy Cechtelar' fake.address() # '426 Jordy Lodge # Cartwrightshire, SC 88120-6700' fake.text() # 'Sint velit eveniet. Rerum atque repellat volu…

This is the equivalent library for PHP https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

Nice to see we all copied that from perl.