Calling it exhaustive is a bit much. It doesn't have many names of my friends. Here in India you get very long/sometimes weird lastnames. Many are not there on the list.
You should contribute!
Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
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#22When would this be useful?
I'm training models to generate fake names for fake resumes -> https://fake.jsonresume.org (When would this also be useful aha)
Going to play with this data set.
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#23Nice job! It seems like you have a fairly rich data set. I could see this being really useful for soon to be parents trying to think up baby names. For anyone where this is your use case or you just find these types of name lists interesting, then you may also want to checkout https://mashword.com.
Mashword is a word mashup name generator service that we recently built that recognizes many common human names. One of our primary use cases is finding alternatives or unique spellings to traditional or common names (e.g. https://mashword.com/search?words=rebecca) It does not support all of the names in these lists, but we are adding and growing our support for names all the time.
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#24Somewhat 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.
Where is she from?
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#25Somewhat 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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#26Somewhat 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.
I feel for her. My wife was in the exact same situation, like almost everyone in her home country she had just one given name. When we moved here to the states she found it highly annoying and even limited some opportunities.
Recently she decided to legally change her name to something that fits in better here. Although it has been an emotional decision for her, she felt she had to as it's very hard to live in the US without a first and last name.
Edit: "Annoying" doesn't even begin to cover her experience. Everything from getting a bank account, to buying a car, to getting a marriage license was a whole process of explaining until we were blue in the face, escalating to a manager, being told basically to get lost, etc. etc.. It left her in tears more than once.
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#27Exhaustive. Phooey. My last name of Morearty isn't in there.
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#29Somewhat 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.
Where is she from?
I know Myanmar is one country where basically everyone has just one name, but there are probably others.
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#30When would this be useful?
Removal of Personally identifiable information (PII) from text data is the first obvious application that came to mind.