Looking For A Random Name Generator For Sports Game

[Rhubarb]

Hi all,

I am working on a sports game which will have a database of unique player names.

The problem i have is that I dont fancy inputting thousands of names!

Does anybody know of a random name generator, or any other kind of programme that might help me quickly build a database of unique names?

Thanks in advance.

[gcarlton]

You can just make up a large list of male first names, female first names, and last names. Then randomly choose a first and a last name. I did that in Jurassic Park, and it worked ok - you can even pull them off your mail list, with the added bonus of occasionally seeing your friends' names mishmashed together, and of course the very rare correct full name. :)

If you have 40 names in each list that will give 1600 names for each gender, which is clearly enough to avoid repetition.

[dntoll]

There is a lot of name lists on the web. just google for ex: "german names", "french names"...


maybe this is a good place to start? http://www.babynamesworld.com/

You might want to find a way to automagically extract the names from the webpage... maybe a jscript or so...

[luggage]

If you have a version of championship manager you could rip the names out of that. I remember writing a program to extract all the data a while back - was fairly straight forward.

It'd give you a big list of first names and surnames - but then there's a chance you might pull out a David Beckham or something.