Blueprint name generator using Markov chains

[Monokkel]

Strange. Even though I’m subscribed to this thread I never got any notifications of comments. I thought it had simply garnered no interest, but I’m happy to see it was of use to people after all

@Vaultdweller47;366536

Hey, this is so awesome! You have no idea how much this has helped me I put in about 200 Japanese male names and it worked absolutely beautifully. This really does allow for a huge amount of randomly generated names! Incredible, keep up the great work and thank you so much!

Thanks! You can actually use markov chains for many things besides generating random names. If you use words instead of letters and sentences instead of words you can generate random poems, articles and many other things. A couple of fun examples are Garkov, which generates random Garfield comics based on multiple original comics and Jesus Markoving Christ, which generates random Jesus quotes

@Slavq;366710

Really cool thing, thanks for sharing
PS. vivivivivia is a beautiful name, what’s wrong with it? ;D

I’m considering it as a name for my first daughter, but I’m afraid people would assume she has a stutter.

@Hyperloop;366896

For the vivivivivivia type cases, you could step through the generated string 2 chars at a time and search for the same substring elsewhere in the name and then regenerate it if you find too many duplicates. Of course a larger dataset would probably be enough. This site is an amazing resource for that: Order Free Random Names - Fake Name Generator (you can download name sets in bulk for free)

Really cool demo, thanks for sharing.

Yeah, that’s absolutely one way to prevent it. And that’s an extremely useful site. Thanks!