Random name generator

The script is available on PyPI. To install with pip:

sudo pip install names

Names can be used as a command line utility or imported as a Python package.

To use the script from the command line:

$ names
John Powell

Here are examples of all current features:

>>> import names
>>> names.get_full_name()
u'Patricia Halford'
>>> names.get_full_name(gender='male')
u'Patrick Keating'
>>> names.get_first_name()
'Bernard'
>>> names.get_first_name(gender='female')
'Christina'
>>> names.get_last_name()
'Szczepanek'

Optionally, you can pass cached=True to any of these functions which caches the name list and is recommended if you are generating many names.

This project is released under an MIT License.

Data in the following files are public domain (derived from 1990 Census data):

• dist.all.last
• dist.female.first
• dist.male.first