Generates random male and female names with real-world probability. (Well the occurrence of first name and last names, not the combination of the two).
Useful for generating test data for, err testing purposes.
Dev:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/macropin/random-name-generator.git#egg=name_generator
Prod:
pip install git+https://github.com/macropin/random-name-generator.git
Then download the data set from www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/1990surnames/ and place the three files, (dist.all.last, dist.female.first, dist.male.first) in ./data.
./name_generator.py -u -m 10
./name_generator.py -m 10 -f 10
./name_generator.py -r 20
./name_generator.py -u -i -r 10
-- Andrew Cutler