[Torg] Simple Name Generator

Kansas Jim ksjim at sdc.org
Mon May 11 20:06:01 EDT 2009


Jeff Clough wrote:

> This isn't strictly a Torg topic, but hopefully someone will find some 
> use for this...
> 
> "There are many like it, but this one is mine!"
> 
> None of the name generators I've come across give me what I want. All I 
> want is a quick list of ten or so names that have a reasonable chance of 
> being distinct so that I can pick which one I want to use.
> 
> I hacked out a script that does this. You can find it here:
> 
> http://www.chaosphere.com/namegen.php
> 
> It gives you ten boy's names and ten girl's names. There's just about 
> 200 first names for boys and about the same number for girls. There are 
> over 88,000 last names (taken from the US Government's Census records).
> 
> Hopefully it will be useful to someone else as well.

Pretty nice, thanks.

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Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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