Database or list of English first and last names

Question

I came across a few small lists / sets of names, but I was wondering if there is a free data source that can provide a list of names (comma delimited or in sql structure)?

I found these two sites:

http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm

http://baby-names.familyeducation.com/browse/letter/a?detoured=1

However, it seems that you can only view the names and not download the full file.

Doesn't the US Census Bureau provide this information?

Answer 1

I am compiling a database that contains names from different countries and cultures, including from the UK. The project and its datasets can be found here: https://github.com/enorvelle/NameDatabases ^{(Dead: link, project and GitHub account)}

It looks like it's ported to github.com/smashew/NameDatabases . (Sole contributor to Eric Norvelle.)

Answer 2

The best source I could find on this is the data provided by the social security administration - unlike the census data, they have names for each year starting in 1900.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

Answer 3

The Census Bureau contains a list of common names from the 2000 and 1990 censuses: http://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2000_surnames.html http://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/ data / 1990_census / 1990_census_namefiles.html

The 1990 census archives also have lists of common male and female names.

Answer 4

Option 1) I uploaded to github, which I scanned from another website and threw it out of Google’s open dataset.

https://github.com/aakashkag/People-Name-List [Github Link for first and last name]

Option 2)

Google BigQuery Public Dataset: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/

You can get names from Google’s open dataset along with gender.

1) Dataset: bigquery-public-data: github_repos

Example: https://app.hyfy.io/v/abRJ75Xizno/

Query: SELECT * FROM fh-bigquery.popular_names.usa_summary_1880_2015 LIMIT 1000 Total names available: 1858689

2) Dateset: bigquery-public-data.github_repos.commits

Request: CHOOSE author.name as author_name, author.email as author_email, committer.name as committer_name, committer.email as committer_email, repo_name FROM bigquery-public-data.github_repos.commits

3) Dateset: bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013 '

Query: SELECT * FROM bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013