Namegen generates random, (vaguely) realistic names, conforming to the naming conventions of several nationalities.
At present, Namegen has data files and support for these modern nationalities:
- Armenian (50 personal names, 33 family names)
- Chinese (56 family names, 108 personal names) in simplified characters and in pinyin
- Danish (72 personal names, 38 family names)
- English (99 personal names, 71 family names)
- Finnish (120 personal names, 81 family names)
- French (140 personal names, 85 family names)
- Georgian (40 personal names, 22 family names)
- Hungarian (21 family names, 52 personal names)
- Icelandic (71 personal names and corresponding patro-/matronyms, plus 12 middle names and 33 family names)
- Japanese (33 family names, 107 personal names, including different kanji and even different readings in rōmaji)
- Latvian (33 personal names, 21 family names with both masculine and feminine forms)
- Polish (111 personal names, 53 family names including 30 with both masculine and feminine forms)
- Russian (79 personal names with corresponding patronyms for masculine names, 56 family names with both masculine and feminine forms)
- Spanish (58 personal names including two-part names, 41 family names)
- Turkish (33 personal names, 20 family names)
- Ukrainian (76 personal names with corresponding patronyms for masculine names, 50 family names)
- Vietnamese (16 family names, 14 middle names, 63 personal names)
Additionally, historical names from these periods are supported:
- Latin, circa the first centuries BC and AD (74 praenomina, 49 nomina in masculine and feminine forms, 71 cognomina including 53 with both masculine and feminine forms)
- Old Spanish, circa the tenth to twelfth centuries (114 personal names with corresponding patronyms for masculine names)
namegen.py [-h] [--version] [-v] [-G | -V [--skip-rebuild]]
[-o OUTFILE [--overwrite]] [-c COUNT] [-n NAT] [-g {M,F}]
| -v, --verbose | Show detailed information on operations performed. |
| -h, --help | Show a help message and exit. |
| --version | Show version information and exit. |
| -G, --generate | Generate one or more names. (This is the default action.) |
| -V, --validate | Rebuild and validate the database. |
| --skip-rebuild | Do not rebuild the database before validation. This option
only has an effect if --validate is specified. |
| -o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE | |
| Write output to the named file, instead of to standard output. If the file already exists, the new text will be appended to it. | |
| --overwrite | Overwrite an existing file instead of appending
to it. This option only has an effect if
--outfile is specified. |
| -c COUNT, --count COUNT | |
Generate COUNT names (defaults to 1). | |
| -n NAT, --nat NAT | |
Generate names of nationality NAT. This may
be a full name (in English), such as "Russian",
or an ISO 639 two- or three-letter code, such
as "ru". | |
| -g G, --gender G | |
The gender of the name(s) generated (either
M or F; must be capitalised). | |
Namegen is copyright © 2014, 2015 Timothy Pederick. It is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
The author disclaims any copyright in the CSV data files, considering them mere collections of fact. For the avoidance of doubt, if any copyright is held to exist in the data files, it is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication ("CC-zero").
The file Scripts.txt is extracted from the Unicode Character Database, and
is licensed under the Unicode, Inc. License Agreement, the text of which
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