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I've come across a few smaller lists/sets of names but I was wondering if there is a free data source out there that can provide a list of names (comma delimited or in a sql structure)?

I've 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 you can only browse the names, not download a comprehensive file.

Doesn't the US Census Bureau provide this information?

Answer 1

The Census Bureau provides list of common surnames 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 files also have lists of common male and female names.

Answer 2

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

This seems to have migrated to github.com/smashew/NameDatabases. (Sole contributer "Erik Norvelle".)

Answer 3

Option 1) I uploaded Millions of people data into github which I crawled from different website and dumped from Google open dataset.

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

Option 2)

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

You can get names from Google 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 availble : 1858689

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

Query: SELECT 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

Or you can get from Linkdin https://www.linkedin.com/directory/people-a

Answer 4

The best source I have been able to find on this is the data provided by the social security administration - unlike the census data, they have first names for every year going back to ~1900.

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