Generating a list of people's names

Question

Hi,

I am building a program that will eventually be populated with thousands of users, but I want to be able to test it using a large dataset while developing.

What I want to do is get a list of several hundred common first names + surnames from various languages/cultures so that I can pair them together randomly and sequentially to create my test data.

I've been unsuccessful in finding such a list, what would be ideal is something in a format that I can easily read in such as CSV , XML etc etc.

Any body else know of such a list?

EDIT:

Thanks for the lists so far very useful , would be even better if there were lists containing popular names in chinese / russian / turkish etc characters.

Answer 1

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/data/surnames.csv and http://www.quietaffiliate.com/free-first-name-and-last-name-databases-csv-and-sql

www.babynames.com has a number of widgets like this one:

<iframe class="widget" src="http://www.babynames.com/features/widgets.php?&amp;action=renamer" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" width="300" height="253"></iframe>

See it here in action. just click the button. http://www.babynames.com/features/widgets.php?&action=renamer"
It might take a while to get a large list

Answer 2

US Census has a list of names that are separated by male and female first and last names

Answer 3

http://blog.rapleaf.com/rapleaf-study-most-common-first-last-and-full-names-on-facebook/

Has link to top 100 First names and top 100 Last names on Facebook.

Was the first Google result for most popular first and last names csv