Procedural Name Generation

Company names

Localisation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_entity Name etymologies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologies

• initialisms (usually based off founders surnames, large companies should have intialisms generated from their company names too e.g., IBM)
• $surname - often pluralised, financial institutions, lawfirms
• $surname & $surname - financial institutions, lawfirms
• $surname & $surname & $surname - financial institutions, lawfirms
• $surname & sons
• $geographicallocation $utility
• $prefix$suffix (using wordlists containing tech and marketing buzzwords)

A lot of polish companies:

• $productname + the suffix "ex"
• $productname + the suffix "pol" or "-pol"

Forenames

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names#Popularity_by_region

Regions missing from above

• China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_given_name#Common_Chinese_Given_Names | http://technology.chtsai.org/namelist/unique_names_2011.zip - 726,544 unique chinese names, character encoding is BIG5

Surnames

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_most_common_surnames

Sex ratio

• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2018.html

Complex names (arabic etc)

• Indonesia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names - Very little conformity with western naming.