fable-names

FableNames is a module which can generate infinite number of names, totally random or similar to some example group (like Elven names, Irish names, Japanese names, etc.).

To install:

npm install fable-names --save

Random

When you're creating new FableNames instance without options it automatically generates some random options:

var FableNames = require('fable-names');
var generator = new FableNames();
var randomName = generator.get();

All of names from one generator will sound similar, here are names generated with one generator:

Hu, Enej, Hexumeq, Equmeq, Apum, Qaumeq, Hexeq, Enufun, Ebufun, Dahexyh

See full example at examples/1-random-names-example.js.

From examples

FableNames can also analyze number of names and generate similar. For good results it should contain decent number of names:

var FableNames = require('fable-names');

// Array of real Japanese names
var japaneseNames = ["Sato", "Suzuki", "Takahashi", "Tanaka", "Watanabe", ...];

var japaneseNamesOptions = FableNames.analyze(japaneseNames); 

var japaneseNamesGenerator = new FableNames(japaneseNamesOptions);

var newName = japaneseNamesGenerator.get();

Examples of generated names:

Totoki, Hakada, Matowa, Hito, Ishisaday, Behi, Okata, Samigawa, Yamamika

See full example at examples/2-japanese-names-example.js.

Non-latin languages

FableNames can both analyze and generate options for non-latin laguages.

To generate non-latin options you need to provide vowels and consonants:

// random options with Estonian letters
var randomOptions = FableNames.generateOptions("aeiouäöüõ", "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvxzw");
var generator = new FableNames(randomOptions); 

To analyze non-latin names you need to provide only vowels:

var russianNames = ["Авдей", "Авксентий", "Агафон", "Александр", "Алексей", ...];
var russianNamesOptions = FableNames.analyze(russianNames, "ауоыиэяюёе");

See full example at examples/4-russian-names-example.js.

Rules and forbidden patterns

To finetune generation of some names you can inject rules verifications and forbidden regexp patterns to avoid generation of fake looking names.

// Example of forbidden patterns for Russian names (names can't start with some letters, some letters can't be followed by others, etc.)
russianNamesOptions.forbiddenPattern = /^[ъьйы]|й.*й|[ауоыиэяюёе]ь|й[ауоыиэяюёе]|йь/i;

// Example verification rule, which is just callback function (it's checking that generated names will be always unique).
romanNamesOptions.verifyRules = (name, options) => usedNames.indexOf(name) === -1;

See full example at examples/4-russian-names-example.js and examples/3-roman-names-example.js.