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@watrack/human-names
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Get popular human english, italian, french, deutch, spanish or dutch names.
To create this repository I have forked this project and make some edit:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/supervillains
Thanks to the author https://github.com/sindresorhus
The name lists are just JSON files and can be used wherever.
Not accepting PRs for additional names.
$ npm install --save human-names
var humanNames = require('human-names');
humanNames.femaleRandom();
//=> Lucy
Type: array
Top female names sorted by popularity.
Type: array
Top male names sorted by popularity.
Type: array
Top names sorted by popularity.
Type: function
Random female name.
Type: function
Random male name.
Type: function
Random name.
$ npm install --global human-names
$ human-names --help
Examples
$ human-names
Lucy
$ human-names --all --type male
Max
John
...
Options
--all Get all names instead of a random name
--type Type of name: female|male|all Default: all
--lang lang of name: en|it|fr|de|es|nl Default: en
MIT © Alessandro Minoccheri
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Get popular human names
We found that @watrack/human-names demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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