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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
There is a pretty massive list of given (first) names (~50,000), and it's carefully curated (not machine generated).
More details are available on another answer:
The best source of international ...
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Nicknames database
Nicknames and Diminutive Names Lookup (CSV)
CSV, Database of Common Nicknames and its GitHub Repository: Common Nickname CSV (Database)
Name to Nickname CSV and Nickname to Name CSV
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Searching for list(s) of babynames containing huge (10k+) amounts of unique names
The best source of international human given (first) names comes from a German computer magazine. The text file has nearly 50k names that are classified by likely gender, and how popular in each ...
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Database of fictional characters?
Wikidata contains 158752 fictional characters, you can get them using this query:
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
# Item's type is: fictional character, or sub-type, or sub-sub-type, etc
?item p:...
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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
You can get such information from Wikidata (as mentioned by @sn3fru) with the Wikidata Query Service at https://query.wikidata.org and a formulation of a SPARQL query.
Here is a SPARQL query for ...
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Searching for list(s) of babynames containing huge (10k+) amounts of unique names
If you are a R user, you can download the SSA 'babynames' dataset directly in R via the package 'babynames' (from the great Hadley Wickham) which is on CRAN: here
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Popularity of given names through the ages
Here You have names with the popularity in capital city of Poland: Popularne imiona w Warszawie
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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
For the purpose of generating a sample customer database, the Fake Name Generator can generate random personal details.
They have name sets from many different countries and can also generate other ...
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Famous people dataset
Looks like there was a research project called Pantheon that compiled such a dataset, which is available here: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/28201
Sort/...
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Popularity of given names through the ages
For the USA, the Social Security Administration has statistics going back to 1880.
The whole national data is downloadable in a ZIP file available for download at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/...
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Data source for names demography analysis?
The Dutch Central Bureau for Genealogy has an interface where you can type a family name and it will show the geographical distribution of that name throughout the Netherlands. You can also enter a ...
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Nicknames database
Wikidata has a nickname property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449
which can be used with given names https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202444 or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82799
which ...
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Nicknames database
Two more hypocorism (=diminutive form of a name) datasets:
https://github.com/brianary/Lingua-EN-Nickname/blob/master/nicknames.txt
https://github.com/jonathanhar/diminutives.db:
https://github.com/...
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Is there a way to extract names and other public information from Facebook?
The Facebook Graph-API contains some functionality that you can piece together to do what you asked.
Step 1: Use the User-Friends endpoint to get a list of user-ids. You can use your own user-id as a ...
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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
Here is a dataset of first names and last names which I scraped from Wiktionary Names Appendix
https://github.com/solvenium/names-dataset
Female_given_names.txt
Male_given_names.txt
Surnames.txt
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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
You can use leaked Facebook name dataset with 1.6M first names and 3.5M last names: https://github.com/philipperemy/name-dataset
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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
I suggest Damegender as Python Tool for this taks. This software shares very good open datasets (USA, UK, Spain, Uruguay, ...) and it is giving support to machine learning features to guess gender in ...
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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
US Census has all surnames occurring more than 100 times, sorted by frequency of occurrence here: https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
US Social Security ...
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Multinational list of popular first names and surnames?
In the Netherlands the Meertens Institute keeps an accurate record of all the names of Dutch citizens. You can enter a name and (if more than 100 people have that name) it will show you all kinds of ...
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Open data of 1 million or more names, for fuzzy matching experiments
Wikipedia
Wikipedia let you download the data conveniently, without API limits, so you can get the titles of their 4M+ English articles. Depending on your needs, you can try other languages as well. ...
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Data source for names demography analysis?
The Social Security Administration in the U.S. publishes state-level baby names data since 1910. You could do a state-to-state comparison.
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/baby-names-from-social-...
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Data on ethnicity of African names
I guess something like that would have to be computed from micro-data, prior to anonymization. Ideal would be censuses, but they are always conducted by the local statistical agencies and anonymized ...
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Searching for list(s) of babynames containing huge (10k+) amounts of unique names
Here are csv files containing first names and surnames on a cool data-sharing platoform: https://data.world/len/us-first-names-database
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Surname - Cast/Ethnicity Mapping for Nepali Names
This unofficial blog has the top names per group (16 Newar, 15 Khas- Chhetri/Thakuri/Sanyasi, 15 Khas-Brahmin, 5 Tamang, 5 Magar)
https://nepalfederalismdebate.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/most-common-...
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Is there a dictionary containing Arabic first and names and their English equivalent?
It seems there are some commercial databases, but if you are brave and don't need an exhaustive list for 100% coverage, you could use Wikipedia articles for Arabic people
top level : ...
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Database or list of romanized Chinese names and last names?
Pinyin is a wide-spread Romanization system for Chinese words. The Comprehensive Database of Chinese Name Variants is a repository of Chinese names and their various Romanized counterparts. According ...
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People names by country
I think screen scraping would work fairly well. Choose a few websites, like babynamewizard.com. These often only give you current popular names, but there are web pages also within the same site that ...
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