Random German Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Family names: the first 100 names of the numbered list in English Wikipedia's 'List of the most common surnames in Germany' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_surnames_in_Germany, wiki text read 2026-09-30; the article says its data were updated to 12 February 2021 and cites Forebears, the Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands and Geogen). A card gives the name's band in that list's order (top 10, top 50, top 100) and no place number or count, because the terms of the sites behind the list were not read. The origin after the band (an occupation, a trait, a house name, a forename, a people) is the list's own note. It is printed only where a second reference agrees: the name's German entry on English Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, read 2026-09-30 through the MediaWiki API), or an entry that entry points at, uses the same gloss word, or, for a note that says only 'forename', the spelling has a German given-name entry there. A script made that check on 2026-09-30: 80 family cards carry an origin and 20 carry none. Given names: the first-name lists of the Berlin registry offices for children born in 2023 (Liste der häufigen Vornamen 2023), published as open data by BerlinOnline GmbH on behalf of the Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO), https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin (folder data/2023, twelve district files, read 2026-09-30), license CC BY 3.0 DE. The files count a name once for each child and say whether it was the child's first, second or later given name; we added the twelve districts together, kept first given names only (position 1), and list the 100 names with the highest totals for each sex, alphabetical order breaking a tie at the cut. A card gives a band by that total (top 10, top 50, top 100). This is one city's register, not a count for Germany. Sex is the column of the file. A spelling that sits on two lists is marked in brackets (Friedrich (family name), Friedrich (boy's name)). x.type is what the Name type row filters on (family, family-50, family-10, girl, boy: a top 10 family name is found under all three family chips); x.gband is what the Berlin row filters on (top-50, top-10) and family cards carry none. x.ascii is the spelling without umlauts or ß for sorting. Counted from this file: 300 cards, 100 family names, 100 girls' names and 100 boys' names. No meanings are printed for given names: none of these sources records one. Every card that states a meaning, an origin or another form of the name carries the address of the page that statement was read on in x.src (and a second reference in x.src2 where one was used). Licence: Mixed, so no single license covers this list. Family names and their notes draw on English Wikipedia and English Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Given names: BerlinOnline GmbH, auf Basis von Daten des Berliner Landesamtes für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO), CC BY 3.0 DE (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/), https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin; the totals across districts and the bands are our own work.