Pretty awesome - although I keep on getting Ferraris and type two Diabetes. I guess it goes to show that you really can't have everything.
Fake Name Generator
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#42As an Indian I am a bit sad to see Hobbit, Klingon and Ninja in there but no option for Indian names.
Selecting "Hobbit" also adjusts the generated height to around 3 feet!
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#43Very useful resource! I'm curious though, where did you get your Hispanic names from? Seems like they come from a database of funny, weird and probably offensive names. No one is called like that in Spanish-speaking countries, and yes, I know the names are supposed to be fake, but just comparing the Hispanic with the American ones, you can tell there's a big difference. Whether or not is intentional, it could be even…
Yes, I was about to say the same. I tried a few "Hispanic" names and they looked absolutely weird.
On the other hand the notion of a "reasonable" Hispanic name can be quite broad. Names in Spain can be very different from names in Argentina (where Italian surnames are quite common) or from US (when it's not uncommon to have an English name with a Spanish last name)
Not sure about that, but other name set can have the same problems if they try to cover a language shared by lots of people (like Arabic)
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.
Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/pontiac/firebird/used-...
You can be the first to own one!
Only a 1995 model though :-)
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#45Italian names are not realistic. Try #1: "Dante Marcelo". Dante is a very strange name for an italian, I guess it is used in the US. Marcelo lacks an "l" (it is Marcello) so it sounds Spanish instead. Try #2: "Berto Trentino". Trentino is realistic but Berto sounds a lot like an abbreviation of "Alberto", so not a real name even if I guess there are people actually named "Berto". Try #3: "Pupetta Rizzo". Can't imagin…
Hey! I actually know a "Dante Marcelo"! (but both as given names, he's known as Marcelo). But he's from Argentina (where Marcelo is a relatively common name), not from Italy
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#46Russian first names (not Cyrillic) are very strange: "Innocent Korovin" - really? Russian (cyrillic) seem more realistic though.
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#47There's a problem with Belgium: it generates street names in flemish for cities in the french speaking part of the country. Makes it obvious the address is fake.
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#48Very useful resource! I'm curious though, where did you get your Hispanic names from? Seems like they come from a database of funny, weird and probably offensive names. No one is called like that in Spanish-speaking countries, and yes, I know the names are supposed to be fake, but just comparing the Hispanic with the American ones, you can tell there's a big difference. Whether or not is intentional, it could be even…
The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.
Same for French names. Last names are okay, but first names aren't French at all for most of them.
I think maybe you had a list of all possible names, but you didn't take into account that some of them are more frequent than others ?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.
Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.
That was the first thing I noticed. My random German drives a
1996 Buick Roadmaster
which is about as likely as him riding around on a Unicorn.
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#50It uses non-USA cars for the USA. We don't have the Chevrolet Matiz or Holden Senator here.