frdeso / qngng

The Queb name generator: next generation

qngng

Table of Contents

• Features
• Install qngng
• Name sources

qngng is the Queb name generator: next generation.

This is a fork (and then essentially a rewrite) of the more basic qng project which includes more options.

Unfortunately, the qng maintainer is unresponsive and won’t follow up with community contributions, so this fork is necessary.

Features

• Generate a random Queb name from lists of popular Queb first names and surnames, from an existing UDA directory member name, and/or from other lists:

  $ qngng

  Théodore Banville

  $ qngng --cat=uda-singers

  Daniel Boucher

  $ qngng --cat=lbl

  Stéphane-Albert Boulais

  $ qngng --cat=icip

  René Homier-Roy

  You can mix categories:

  $ qngng --cat=uda-singers --cat=std

  Karl-Hugo Van De Kerckhove

  The available categories are:

  all	All the categories.
  d31	District 31 characters.
  dug	Dans une galaxie près de chez vous characters.
  icip	ICI Première personalities.
  lbl	La bête lumineuse characters.
  sn	Série noire characters.
  std	Popular first names and surnames.
  uda	UDA member names.
  uda-actors	UDA actor member names.
  uda-hosts	UDA host member names.
  uda-singers	UDA singer member names.

• Generate a random male or female name:

  $ qngng --female

  Karen Cusson

  $ qngng --male --cat=uda-hosts

  Claude Poirier

• For the std (default) category, generate a double-barreled surname, a middle name, or a middle initial:

  $ qngng --double-surname

  Josiane Fiset-Bellerose

  $ qngng --middle-name --female

  Geneviève Margot Chartier

  $ qngng --middle-initial

  Coralie D. Trépanier

• Print the generated name with various formats:

  $ qngng --snake-case

  laura_viau

  $ qngng --kebab-case --cat=uda

  michel-mpambara

  $ qngng --camel-case --female --double-surname

  clemenceBriseboisGroulx

  $ qngng --cap-camel-case --male --cat=sn

  MarcArcand

See qngng --help for the complete list of options.

Install qngng

To install qngng on the system:

• Use pip3:

  $ sudo pip3 install --upgrade qngng

To install qngng in your home directory:

• Use pip3:

  $ pip3 install --user --upgrade qngng

  The commands are installed in ~/.local/bin.

Name sources

The data sources of qngng are:

d31 category

IMDB’s District 31.

dug category

FANDOM’s Dans une galaxie près de chez vous wiki.

icip category

List of ICI Première shows.

lbl category

IMDB’s La bête lumineuse.

sn category

Série noire on Qui Joue Qui?.

std category

L’Institut de la statistique for surnames and PrénomsQuébec.ca for first names (who in turn get their data from Retraite Québec’s Banque de prénoms).

uda* categories

April 2019 UDA directory.