Improve german first names

[mikehaertl]

As a native I have to say, that the german first names don't look very german to me :).

Here's a list of the most frequently used first names:

• http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verzeichnis:Deutsch/Liste_der_h%C3%A4ufigsten_m%C3%A4nnlichen_Vornamen_Deutschlands
• http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verzeichnis:Deutsch/Liste_der_h%C3%A4ufigsten_weiblichen_Vornamen_Deutschlands

[mikehaertl]

I've parsed and sorted the lists:

• https://gist.github.com/mikehaertl/870cdee52fa438e334b4
• https://gist.github.com/mikehaertl/538022a9c0e0171452dd

[fzaninotto]

Could you submit a patch with a link to the references your mentioned?

[mikehaertl]

Done. If done right, we'd actually also need a probability for each name. For example "Peter" is used 220599 times, whereas "Fatih" is only used 237 times.

Alternatively we could focus on the 500 most common names (instead of 1000 as it is right now).

[fzaninotto]

Fixed by #362

[mikehaertl]

@fzaninotto What do you think about my suggestion above? I think, we get better results if we limit to the 500 most frequent names. The names 501-1000 contain too many very seldom names.

[fzaninotto]

Sounds fair.

[Findus23]

I known I'm a bit late, but would it be possible to improve the last names too?
I can't really believe that these are the most common last names. Especially names like auch Schlauchin don't make sense.
@mikehaertl Would it be possible to parse the names from https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verzeichnis:Deutsch/Liste_der_h%C3%A4ufigsten_Nachnamen_Deutschlands ?
And while we're on it, is it possible to also update the Austrian Names from https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Verzeichnis:Deutsch/Liste_der_h%C3%A4ufigsten_Nachnamen_%C3%96sterreichs (or at least copy them from Germany)

[mikehaertl]

@Findus23 It was mainly lack of time - and that I didn't need faker anymore so far. So feel free to send any updates you like. Also consider to update the first names like I've mentioned above. Most of them are not really sounding very german (yes, we have "multikulti" ;) - but still I think the "classical" german names are most common).

[Findus23]

I'll see if I am able to update them.
Do you still have the script to parse the list and create the array?

[mikehaertl]

No, sorry. I think I've just copy & pasted this into Vim and then used some regex to extract the names.

[Findus23]

I have made the pull requests #825 and #826.