The purpose of this project is to have a comprehensive collection of Zambian names that can be used in a variety of contexts. The project was born as a result of seeking to contribute to joke2k's Faker by creating an en_ZM locale so that Faker can be used to generate Zambian specific data, such as names, addresses, etc.
When I did a quick Google search on May 19th, 2020, I found that thezambian.com had a more comprehensive list of names, which were arranged in alphabetical order. However, these names had no indication of
- whether they were first names or last names (or both)
- gender
I decided to create this project in an attempt to resolve the above two issues, which I perceive to be important factors in the Faker package.
The first thing to do is fetch the names from thezambian.com! The python script fetch_names.py does exactly this. It uses requests and BeautifulSoup to achieve this. The fetched names are saved in the file zambian_names.md.
TODO