randomNames

1.6-0.0

Generate Random Given and Surnames

6packages depend

69Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Damian W. BetebennerFirst published 2011-06-1513 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Function for generating random gender and ethnicity correct first and/or last names. Names are chosen proportionally based upon their probability of appearing in a large scale data base of real names.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("randomNames", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("CenterForAssessment/randomNames")

Development version from CenterForAssessment/randomNames. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-randomnames

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-randomNames

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Rank #1,881 · ~189/day · ~5.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ centerforassessment/randomnames

32Stars

6Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

179Commits

4Contributors

rrandom-namesrandom-name-generatorscran

179 commits · Last activity 2024-12-09

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/centerforassessment/randomnames on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

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Research and citation (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (3)

crayon data.table toOrdinal

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Damian W. Betebenner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Damian W. Betebenner

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Lambert Joshua

Contributor · added in 1.6-0.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Betebenner

no longer listed · 1.0-0.0 to 1.6-0.0

Package Timeline

13 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-06-15
Total releases: 13 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 413 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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