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Random person name generator
- ASVVVAD 6y agoTip: can be easily accessed from your app using the DDG Answers API: https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=random+person+name+generator&ia=answer&format=json&pretty=1 https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=random+person+name+generator&i...
- modinfo 6y agoHere is my version of FakeID API: https://fakeid.now.sh/ https://fakeid.now.sh/ All data from https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
- OceanKing 6y agoThe “Details” JSON seems jumbled. See: {"status":"success","message":"OK","data":{"Name":"Robert Ignatieff","Address":"1990 Lake Floyd Circle, Gaithersburg, MD 20877","Details":{"1":"Birthday","176":"Company","39273275":"Favorite color","7acad451-3bcd-422a-8573-b320ea2a5f91":"QR Code","1999ToyotaBandeirante":"GUID","Brown":"Vehicle", <sic>}}} https://fakeid.now.sh/api/Gender/male/NameSet/ru/Country/us https://fakeid.now.sh/api/Gender/male/NameSet/ru/Country/us
- ThePowerOfFuet 6y agoWhy are you not using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 for country codes?
- hart_russell 6y agoI can only think of one use case: filling out form data that you don’t want to use your real identity. Any others?
- Memosyne 6y agoSometimes when I'm feeling blue I write letters addressed to fake people and share my thoughts with them.
- voisin 6y agoCan’t tell if this is /s or not, but have you considered a real life pen pal that writes back?
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoGood test data for building your applications.
- raspyberr 6y agoI think that's the main use case but I guess it could help when NPCs for a world or a book.
- seesawtron 6y agoGenerating bot accounts on Twitter and Reddit for you know why.
- pc123 6y agoI generated a fake name and I am using it as a fake identity where I don't want to use my real name, like in a comment on youtube video. It's like my alter ego ;)
- newsbinator 6y agoI keep getting emails for a person with the name of my fake identity.
- aspenmayer 6y agoSounds like you and your alter ego got burned at least once.
- Nextgrid 6y agoMessing with tech support scammers, although for that purpose the Fake Name Generator (search for it) is better because it generates addresses and credit card numbers (that pass the checksum validation) too.
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- lisper 6y agoGenerating character names for fiction writing.
- Raed667 6y agoFilling out fake data for your testing or demo environments is also a good use-case.
- codazoda 6y agoAuthors (pen names), musicians, bloggers, anyone else who wants a little privacy but still wants to share publicly.
- pridkett 6y agoInside of companies with data protection requirements, these can be handier and more natural than censoring PII or PCI or replacing them with an encrypted string. It’s much more natural for the data science process.
- chadlavi 6y agoGreeking designs is a huge use case for me. plugging in random user info into a dashboard or something.
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- keeblers_n_bits 6y ago`rig` (random identity generator) on Linux is another useful tool for this
- themodelplumber 6y agoThat's neat. I like that you can add -c N and get N identities. > Based on "fake" written for MS-DOS. Unfortunately the author and publish date are unknown. A bit intriguing...
- dredmorbius 6y agoIt has a very limited set of seed names (or did last I checked), though can be handy.
- ape4 6y agoOh I was hoping DuckDuckGo would fake your browser personality somehow. Mac -> PC, etc
- ASVVVAD 6y agoThat's beyond DuckDuckGo's control since that data is controlled and sent by the browser. There are many addons for doing what you said though just look for user-agent changer or faker
- snazz 6y agoStartpage's private browsing feature does something similar but far more effective.
- rmrfstar 6y agoIf you just want to blend in with the crowd, you can use the tor browser without the tor proxy. They have invested a lot of effort crafting its fingerprint. Now that they have moved away from Firefox ESR, it shouldn't come with much of a security penalty.
- Raed667 6y agoI made a random Arabic name generator around 5 years ago[0]. Data is scrapped from Tunisian electoral lists. Feel free to use the DB, it is in sqlite. [0] https://lab.raed.it/php/tounsi/ https://lab.raed.it/php/tounsi/
- saagarjha 6y agoI’m still very disappointed that DuckDuckHack was ended…
- billme 6y agoRelated URL: https://duckduckhack.com/ https://duckduckhack.com/
- inetsee 6y agoI have on occasion created pseudonyms for various purposes. One of my favorite techniques is to combine a first name common to a particular nationality with a last name common to a different nationality. E.g. a French first name with a Japanese last name. Surprisingly, such combinations occur somewhat frequently in real life.
- drusepth 6y agoIs it just generating a random name and birthday? That seems... underwhelming compared to the hundreds of services that already exist for doing this (see: any of the results given to DDG's query) and generate a much more extensive dossier.
- perl4ever 6y agoA good generator would come up with something ordinary sounding that doesn't correspond to any known person, I guess?
- artistsvoid 6y agomight be a good place to share https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chmod+600&t=hk&ia=answer https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chmod+600&t=hk&ia=answer - notice little things like that regularly w/ DDG Whenever I have a hard time finding something I am tempted to try Google. The thought of "Google is THE search engine" is still ingrained somewhere in my brain. For quite some time now, if I can't find it using DDG, Google turns out not any better (not using Cookies, not using an account that is - so no extreme search personalization) - some maybe not so obvious things I like about DDG - it doesn't force localization as hard upon you, if you set DuckDuckGo to country xyz it seems you 'literally' get the results you would get as if you were in this country, as someone who travels frequently, or is a foreigner in a country, that is extremely nice. Besides just being insightful when doing research of course - fewer sites are removed drom DDG's search results (we all know about takedown notices). For example in Germany there is a 'right to be forgotten', individuals can have links removed from Google if it is about them personally (unless they are a public person of interest and some other restrictions), and of course sites with copyright infringements (and yes, sometimes I am looking for some site to stream something, while I often even use yandex for that, I find sites quickly with DDG. With Google you see the notice 'sites have been removed due to copyright violations', then you can go to the lumendatabase, but there scam sites and 'legitimate' streaming sites are mixed together, so you hunt through there, it's a nightmare) honestly don't miss Google anymore and use DDG on all my devices, but I don't want to pitch too hard. Use whatever works for you
- klmadfejno 6y agoI do this too. I try and fail to find something quick in DDG. I then try and fail to find it in google. But mentally it's hard not to chalk that up as a failure of DDG for status quo reasons. Ah well. I'm a supporter.
- k12sosse 6y agoThe first randomly generated person I received was born within a month of me. Hiyooooo!
- chadlavi 6y agoI love that they do these. This one in particular is really helpful when greeking designs (and I guess could also be useful for D&D dungeonmasters?)
- sn_master 6y agoI wonder what kind of validity checks they have. e.g. a lot of first/last names cannot be paired together because they would belong to different religions/ethnicities. Probably they're sticking with just Anglosaxon names where this is far less of a problem than Middle East/India ones.
- coolreader18 6y ago> Probably they're sticking with just Anglo-Saxon names I don't think so, I got "Johanna Nagata", and Nagata is apparently a Japanese surname.
- dredmorbius 6y agoLess "cannot" and more "are rarely". I've encountered a few odd mixes personally. There are sources (US SSN and census especially) of first and last name frequency by decade, though not so much first/last pairings. Gender also.
- sn_master 6y agoIn Muslim countries, people who switch religions to/from Christianity have to change their first names if its the name of prophet/saint in the other religion.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoI sometimes use DDG for getting a UUID too :) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uuid&t=hj&ia=answer https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uuid&t=hj&ia=answer If you like that kind of things and you dig Python, the lib "faker" (https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/) is a real threat: from faker import Faker fake = Faker() fake.name() # 'Lucy Cechtelar' fake.address() # '426 Jordy Lodge # Cartwrightshire, SC 88120-6700' fake.text() # 'Sint velit eveniet. Rerum atque repellat voluptatem quia rerum. Numquam excepturi ... There are many different generators, and you can even use l10n to generate names, phone numebers, plates, IP or ssn from different parts of the world. It's amazing to create test data, either for dev or teaching, and I just have it autoimported in my PYTHONSTARTUP because of it. It also plays well with "factoryboy" (https://factoryboy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://factoryboy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to mass generate complex data set, and even add them automatically to the database.
- hapidjus 6y agoThis is the equivalent library for PHP https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoNice to see we all copied that from perl.
- thelibrarian 6y agoAnd this is the equivalent for Ruby: https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker
- zaarn 6y agoFor author and GMing purposes I can recommend https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ , which has been a huge help for running my weekly DnD seesions.
- FlashBlaze 6y agoIs there a list where I can find such quick results on DDG? Like for uuid, Markdown cheatsheet, chmod, etc
- creed98 6y agoImplement this in the hospital