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Not only can you get a good idea of age from a name you can generate names that match age and sex. I have a niece who recently did a science fair project where
by te_platt 12y ago
Not only can you get a good idea of age from a name you can generate names that match age and sex. I have a niece who recently did a science fair project where she used Markov chains seeded with U.S. census data over the last hundred years to create new names. With about 90% accuracy people could tell if a fake name was from 100, 50, or <10 years ago and the sex.
An interesting side note was that she put in a simple profanity filter but in all of her trial runs it never picked up any "fuq" or variant names.
Edit: Here are sample boy names:
Shill
Flay
Roshard
Per
Coll
Milius
Madfrego
Derry
Fer
Fordy
Carlel
Marler
Rommyronance
Jord
Felwooke
Rott
Luper
Bent
Zekin
Othen
Nolanterry
Jerarton
Here are some girl names
Esalessie
Rine
Nolenn
Alynna
Myrtinet
Faybeciline
Aline
Orassabenda
Phina
Dorgia
Lideleaste
Beara
Sonilinn
Judelia
Monangeora
Jarnina
Geleene
Emozellyn
Maudra
Verta
Lortis
Fret
Kathoph
- njharman 12y agoYour niece is cool.
- te_platt 12y agoI think so. Here is a fun little story about a robotics project she worked on: http://davisclipper.com/view/full_story/21911572/article-Local-teens-design--assemble-frisbee-throwing-robot http://davisclipper.com/view/full_story/21911572/article-Loc... (search for Platt in the article)
- hluska 12y ago> At the Bountiful home, Alia Platt worked to design the arm that would throw the Frisbees. I'll second njharman's comment. Your niece is cool! :)
- feifan 12y agoRommyronance sounds like a character out of Archie ;)
- Rudism 12y agoMy friend Felwooke Madfrego will be in touch with your niece regarding this apparent libel that his name is fake.
- kreeben 12y agoAnd here is that moment from life of brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zyv6YHR_UE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zyv6YHR_UE
- andrey-p 12y agoAny chance she could open source that? My friend's writing a fantasy novel and I think he could really use a realistic-sounding fake name or two.
- tomwalker 12y agohttp://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
- andrey-p 12y agoI did specify "fantasy" for a reason. If you're writing fantasy you want your names to sound natural yet unlike anything your reader will seen before. Hence why I guess many names in fantasy novels (I'm thinking Song of Fire and Ice and Wheel of Time) are pretty much a normal name with one or two letters replaced. I'll keep your link in mind though - for my own writing which is in a non-fantasy setting.
- ehsanu1 12y agoGoogling turns up a few fantasy name generators that seem to work decently enough: https://www.google.com/search?q=fantasy+name+generator https://www.google.com/search?q=fantasy+name+generator
- rodh 12y agofakenamegenerator.com does have "Hobbit" as a name set. Also the Norwegian name set does generate some interesting nordic names like Rosenvinge, Valgard, etc.
- cac04 12y agoI was horrified when I realised that all the names in Game of Thrones are just normal names as pronounced by my one year old daughter.
- te_platt 12y agoI'll look into it.
- d23 12y agoAh, for the markov chains I'm assuming you mean by individual letter? Either way, cool project. How old was your niece at the time?
- aptwebapps 12y ago'Per' is a man's name, in Germany anyway.
- theatgrex 12y agoThat's cool I actually wanted to do some thing similar ... a site that would guess your sex, age, and country of birth from the name you gave
- zimpenfish 12y agoI bet Rommyronance would get mercilessly bullied at school. Did she ever generate lists per census? That would be interesting to see how the names changed.