ks093/name-dataset

Probably the biggest dataset of Names, worldwide.

First and Last Names Dataset

Attempt to make a good dataset with a high precision / recall.

• ~200k first names
• ~110k last names

Installation

pip install names-dataset

Usage

from names_dataset import NameDataset
m = NameDataset()
m.search_first_name('Brian')
m.search_last_name('Remy')

echo -e "$(python main.py 'Brian is in the kitchen while Amanda is watching the TV on the sofa.\nThey are both waiting for Alfred to come.')"

Sources and References

• Generator: http://listofrandomnames.com/index.cfm?generated

• https://www.sajari.com/public-data: 5000 names (First Names CSV)

• http://www.20000-names.com/ names around the world

• https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/most-popular-boys-names-for-the-past-100-years UK

• https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/most-popular-girl-names-for-the-past-100-years UK

• https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/names/babies-first-names/full-lists-of-babies-first-names-2010-to-2014 Scotland

• https://gender-api.com/en/pricing

• https://github.com/OpenGenderTracking/globalnamedata/tree/master/assets

• From https://bocoup.com/blog/global-name-data

• https://github.com/MatthiasWinkelmann/firstname-database

• http://www.namepedia.org/en/firstname/Nabil/

• https://datasets.imdbws.com/

• https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/

• https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/46/multinational-list-of-popular-first-names-and-surnames

• ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/listings/0717-182.zip

• https://data.world/howarder/gender-by-name

• https://statbel.fgov.be/en/open-data/first-names-total-population-municipality

• https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/previousReleases

• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/nlp/corpora/names/

• https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

• https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

• https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi

• https://github.com/hadley/data-baby-names/blob/master/baby-names.csv

• http://www.quietaffiliate.com/free-first-name-and-last-name-databases-csv-and-sql/

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452003/plain-computer-parseable-lists-of-common-first-names

• http://mbejda.github.io/

• https://www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/1990surnames/dist.all.last

• https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1108/database-of-names-of-japanese-and-non-japanese-people

• https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/12234/name-and-gender-dataset

• https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/7071/people-names-by-country

• http://www.randomnames.com/all-boys-names.asp

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names#cite_note-ahram2004-2

• http://www.avss.ucsb.edu/NameFema.HTM

• http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198610601.001.0001/acref-9780198610601?btog=chap&hide=true&page=248&pageSize=10&skipEditions=true&sort=titlesort&source=%2F10.1093%2Facref%2F9780198610601.001.0001%2Facref-9780198610601

• https://github.com/dominictarr/random-name/blob/master/first-names.txt

• https://github.com/smashew/NameDatabases/tree/master/NamesDatabases/first%20names

• https://www.behindthename.com/names

• https://incompetech.com/named/multi.pl