There were 87K last names there. I cut it off at 10K to save space. There are some pretty amazing ones down near the bottom of the list, for sure!
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It's a bit too late for that. My wife died, and then I died.
]]>Sweet!! I think I once had a John Jorge Johnson or something similar, but it's a while ago.
My family members are currently Kenny, Karla, and Kayla.
]]>But honestly: The random name poetry is one of the great things of TCD. Not only is it sweet to see a TCD name for the first time since it's so rare, it also brings out sweet combinations. It's like finding meaning in randomised spam messages. Machine poetry. The future, probably.
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Toward the end of the list are rarely-reported male names like PATRICIA, JEWEL, and ELISHA.
For those who are interested, the first names for the spouse, son, and daughter came from these Social Security files for the years 1963, 1985, and 1988, respectively:
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
Wheres the census list is for all people living in 1990, regardless of age, the Social Security lists are specific to birth year, so I could get much more specific with those.
And the names generated aren't just picked at random from the pool---the are picked according to the real-life probability distribution for the names. So, for example, the name James is chosen for the player twice as often as the name Charles.
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