bairwell/faker-en-gb-ons-firstnames

First names/Forenames from the UK's Office of National Statistics as a provider for Faker

v1.0.1 2019-08-29 20:52 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.1
• fzaninotto/faker: ^1.8

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^8.3
• roave/security-advisories: dev-master

MIT

• Richard Bairwell

README

Need forenames that "look real" for a UK orientated application (for example, for testing search facilities or for creating a honeypot system)? Well, this is the Faker provider library for you!

Seeded with data from the UK's Office Of National Statistics and containing 16,964 male first names/forenames/given names and 22,174 female first names (based on registered births in England and Wales for 1996-2016 and Scotland 2016-2017) - all complete with frequency weighting - so the data "looks right".

The names are formatted using namecase.

License

The Data is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 as per http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

This package is not supported/sponsored/acknowledged/recommended by the UK Government or the Office of National Statistics. It is entirely unofficial.

Usage

    $faker=new \Faker\Generator();
    $faker->addProvider(new \Bairwell\Faker\EnGbOns\Firstnames\Firstnames($faker));
    $fakeName=$faker->firstName;