How does a fake name generator work?

StartCoding · April 13, 2019, 4:32pm

example: https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-male-us-hu.php

Jordan · April 13, 2019, 5:28pm

It pulls from a dataset containing the names, based upon the criteria entered on the site. When someone clicks ‘Generate’ it most likely triggers a function and displays the result.

Inspecting this php script might explain it a bit better
view-source:https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-random-us-us.php

robmcdan · April 15, 2019, 2:11am

There are many methods of text generation. Markov chains are an old trick and a good starting place, which you can use to generate either longer texts or just simple names

robmcdan · April 15, 2019, 2:12am

Unsurprisingly, however, the immediate future of text generation models is probably neural.

faisal-haroon · December 13, 2019, 8:55pm

I am also working to launch my own generator

imence · December 31, 2019, 9:37am

By the way, that’s the most popular name generator. However, it has quite a number of things to be improved, I suppose

David · December 31, 2019, 5:42pm

@imence low hanging fruit? maybe you’ll make the internet’s best name generator?