Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
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#2Good job
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#3Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name.
My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
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#4Looks like it doesn’t yet incorporate the Census surname data, which has more than 160K U.S. last names: https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data.html
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#5Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name. My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
Indeed, when I clicked through, I expected one of the comments to already have linked to https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
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#6~160k first names
~100k last names
Out of 7-8 billion people this is really all (or most) of the first and last names? We aren’t a very creative species I guess. I especially would have expected the number of first names to be at least an order of magnitude larger.
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#7Looks like it doesn’t yet incorporate the Census surname data, which has more than 160K U.S. last names: https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data.html
Will add it thanks
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#8When would this be useful?
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#9~160k first names ~100k last names Out of 7-8 billion people this is really all (or most) of the first and last names? We aren’t a very creative species I guess. I especially would have expected the number of first names to be at least an order of magnitude larger.
It's not. Not even close. It doesn't even have my last name for instance. And that's a western name.
Then there's also the following issues:
- The list contains mostly names in basic latin script, which already excludes most of the world population.
- It's also pretty bold of the author to assume that everyone even has a "first" and a "last" name. Not all names work like that.
- The list contains a bunch of extraneous stuff like "�" and " (>\k���� " and "रामकिशो&"
- The list is converted to lowercase. You can't just change the capitalization of names and expect them to be the same. Not all scripts work like that.
- In some languages/cultures a first/last name could be pretty much any word you can find in a dictionary, or a combination of them. You'd pretty much need to add that language's entire dictionary.
I could go on but instead I'll just link to this: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#10~160k first names ~100k last names Out of 7-8 billion people this is really all (or most) of the first and last names? We aren’t a very creative species I guess. I especially would have expected the number of first names to be at least an order of magnitude larger.
Many people prefer popular first names. For example, there are probably more than 150 million people with the first name Muhammad or some spelling variation thereof.