Getting a list of random place names and person names

Question

I want to demonstrate a product to a potential new customer.

The best source data comes from an existing customer.

I want to use the existing customer's data for the demonstration, but without compromising confidentiality in any way.

The best solution I see is to run a script that replaces all of the names, addresses and locations in the database with randomly selected names.

So, now I need to find a list of place names and person names to use as a source. Preferably this would be in a text file so it can be read easily.

This seems like a pretty common problem. Does anyone know of a site that I can download these names from?

Answer 1

Check out: http://infochimps.org/, for example: http://infochimps.org/datasets/d-1990-census-name-files and http://infochimps.org/datasets/word-list-10-000-common-place-names