Random name generator

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

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"

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