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+1  Q: 

List of proper names?

I'm trying to filter names out of text blobs. Currently I'm just generating a words list and filtering it by hand but I've got ~8k words to go so I'm looking for a better way. I could grab a dictionary and filter them out but that would cull names like smith and cliff.

What I need is either of the following:

  • a list of common names (I'd need the >5k most common names)
  • a list of names that also happen to be words

I figure between them, I can do a combined blacklist/whitelist to get what I need.

+2  A: 

US Census name list: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/

That should get you one angle on the problem, anyway.

fennec  2010-01-27 22:58:07
That should do it.
BCS  2010-01-27 23:03:41

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