Once during testing my Product Owner wrote to me with the question about strange first and last names that appear on the environment in application under test. My test script generated test data by adding randomly created first and last names.
As far as on that time we had the only environment for testing and demo purposes, he asked me to think about the way to use human readable test data for testing and possible demo sessions as they could scheduled in several minutes after request by anyone who was involved into development and sale.
Thus, the idea to publish the results of my investigation appeared. Here it is - Real Names application. It allows you (and me) to
use randomly generated first and last names from the existing real names. First and last names are taken randomly,
that fully exclude any connections with real people. Data source contains more than 255.000 first names and more
than 150.000 last names that make at least one full executions run completely unique (or at least a very close
to unique ) and human readable.
It is interesting to take a look at nice looking users/patients/employees that looks like real people or to see how combinations of first anf last names are nicely mixed.
Since it is deployed to Heroku app cloud service you can safely use it (and me as well) as a data source for your projects.
I've prepared two versions for you: