The NameMaker project is designed to generate random names to use for testing.
NAMEMAKER [/c:runs][/f:format]
Where runs is the number names to generate
Where format may consist of the folowing items:
Formatting options:
[FirstName] First (given) name
[LastName] Last (family) name
[FI] First Initial
[LI] Last Initial
[space] Space character
[comma] ,
[tab] Tab character
[dot] . character
Examples:
This command line produces a thousand random names to the console
NAMEMAKER /c:1000
NAMEMAKER /c:1000 /f:[LastName][comma][space][FirstName]
Produces a thousand random names to the console in the format lastName, firstName
Name Lists Copyright Mark Kantrowitz.
- Generates a name by randomly picking gender then picking a name random from the appropriate gender list.
- 58257 Surnames
- 4987 Female first names
- 2940 Male first names
2020-01-26 Version 0.4 Added a dot (.) to formatting
- Tests now in a separate project
- Compiled for .Net 4.5.2
2017-10-12 Version 0.2
- First Prerelease
- Documentation Update
Version 0.2,
- Skip Lines beginning with # and blank lines in names files
- Unit tests added
- Formatting of names added with the /f switch
Version 0.1, 5 September 2012
- Command line switch /c:n generates n names in the format
[FirstName][space][LastName] - Help added
4 September 2012 First Release.