Name generator, trained on a baby names book.
Originally shared by Andrej Karpathy
#RandomExperimentSundays : I was curious if char-rnn (https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn) can generate new, fun and plausible baby names. So I got a dataset of 8,000 baby names from an NLP repo (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/nlp/corpora/names/), trained a 2-layer LSTM and generated some.
To my amusement many fun unique names come out and 90% of them are not found in the training data. Here are 100 example samples that do not occur in training data:
Rudi
Levette
Berice
Lussa
Hany
Mareanne
Chrestina
Carissy
Marylen
Hammine
Janye
Marlise
Jacacrie
Hendred
Romand
Charienna
Nenotto
Ette
Dorane
Wallen
Marly
Darine
Salina
Elvyn
Ersia
Maralena
Minoria
Ellia
Charmin
Antley
Nerille
Chelon
Walmor
Evena
Jeryly
Stachon
Charisa
Allisa
Anatha
Cathanie
Geetra
Alexie
Jerin
Cassen
Herbett
Cossie
Velen
Daurenge
Robester
Shermond
Terisa
Licia
Roselen
Ferine
Jayn
Lusine
Charyanne
Sales
Sanny
Resa
Wallon
Martine
Merus
Jelen
Candica
Wallin
Tel
Rachene
Tarine
Ozila
Ketia
Shanne
Arnande
Karella
Roselina
Alessia
Chasty
Deland
Berther
Geamar
Jackein
Mellisand
Sagdy
Nenc
Lessie
Rasemy
Guen
Gavi
Milea
Anneda
Margoris
Janin
Rodelin
Zeanna
Elyne
Janah
Ferzina
Susta
Pey
Castina
Here is a much bigger sample: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/namesGenUnique.txt
Some of my favorites include “Baby” (haha), “Killie”, “Char”, “R”, “More”, “Mars”, “Hi”, “Saddie”, “With” and “Ahbort”. Well that was fun.