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Global Names Dataset

Source: R/global_names.R
GLOBAL_NAMES.Rd

A collection of ~1000 culturally diverse names from around the world, organized by region for use in social network simulations.

Usage

GLOBAL_NAMES

Format

A named list of character vectors, with each element containing names from a specific region.

Details

Regions are organized geographically and include:

Europe:

  • western_europe: UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium

  • eastern_europe: Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria

  • southern_europe: Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece

  • nordic: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland

Middle East & Central Asia:

  • arab: Gulf states, Levant, Egypt

  • persian: Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan

  • turkish: Turkey, Azerbaijan

  • central_asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan

Asia:

  • south_asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal

  • east_asia: China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia

  • southeast_asia: Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia

Africa:

  • west_africa: Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mali

  • east_africa: Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Somalia, Uganda

  • southern_africa: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia

  • north_africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya

  • central_africa: DRC, Cameroon, Congo

Americas:

  • north_america: USA, Canada

  • latin_america: Mexico, Central America, South America, Brazil

  • caribbean: Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Trinidad, Dominican Republic

  • indigenous_americas: Native American, First Nations, Mayan, Incan

Oceania:

  • australia_nz: Australia, New Zealand

  • pacific_islands: Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, PNG

  • indigenous_oceania: Maori, Aboriginal Australian

Other:

  • jewish_hebrew: Hebrew/Jewish names

  • armenian_georgian: Armenia, Georgia

See also

get_global_names for sampling names, list_name_regions for exploring available regions.

Examples

# View all region names
names(GLOBAL_NAMES)
#>  [1] "western_europe"      "eastern_europe"      "southern_europe"    
#>  [4] "nordic"              "arab"                "persian"            
#>  [7] "turkish"             "central_asia"        "south_asia"         
#> [10] "east_asia"           "southeast_asia"      "west_africa"        
#> [13] "east_africa"         "southern_africa"     "north_africa"       
#> [16] "central_africa"      "north_america"       "latin_america"      
#> [19] "caribbean"           "indigenous_americas" "australia_nz"       
#> [22] "pacific_islands"     "indigenous_oceania"  "jewish_hebrew"      
#> [25] "armenian_georgian"  

# View names from a specific region
GLOBAL_NAMES$arab
#>  [1] "Ali"     "Fatima"  "Omar"    "Layla"   "Yusuf"   "Mariam"  "Khalid" 
#>  [8] "Noor"    "Sultan"  "Sheikha" "Rashid"  "Amal"    "Hamad"   "Moza"   
#> [15] "Faisal"  "Hessa"   "Hassan"  "Amira"   "Amir"    "Zara"    "Tariq"  
#> [22] "Salma"   "Faris"   "Rania"   "Karim"   "Leila"   "Walid"   "Dina"   
#> [29] "Nabil"   "Huda"    "Samir"   "Lina"    "Ahmed"   "Mona"    "Mahmoud"
#> [36] "Heba"    "Mostafa" "Yasmine" "Tarek"   "Dalia"   "Mohamed" "Noha"   
#> [43] "Amr"     "Aya"     "Khaled"  "Mai"     "Hazem"   "Nada"    "Ziad"   
#> [50] "Rana"    "Sami"    "Reem"    "Adel"    "Noura"   "Mazen"   "Asma"   
#> [57] "Jamal"   "Dalal"   "Bassam"  "Aisha"   "Rami"    "Hana"    "Tamer"  
#> [64] "Sara"   
GLOBAL_NAMES$east_asia
#>   [1] "Wei"          "Lin"          "Chen"         "Mei"          "Jing"        
#>   [6] "Xiao"         "Ming"         "Hua"          "Feng"         "Yan"         
#>  [11] "Jun"          "Lei"          "Bo"           "Lan"          "Tao"         
#>  [16] "Ying"         "Hao"          "Yue"          "Zhen"         "Xin"         
#>  [21] "Peng"         "Qian"         "Rui"          "Shu"          "Long"        
#>  [26] "Fang"         "Hong"         "Li"           "Chao"         "Na"          
#>  [31] "Gang"         "Ling"         "Yuki"         "Hiro"         "Akira"       
#>  [36] "Sakura"       "Kenji"        "Yuna"         "Taro"         "Haruki"      
#>  [41] "Koji"         "Miki"         "Ryu"          "Emi"          "Rin"         
#>  [46] "Sora"         "Kaito"        "Hana"         "Yuto"         "Aoi"         
#>  [51] "Sota"         "Mei"          "Ren"          "Yui"          "Haruto"      
#>  [56] "Koharu"       "Takumi"       "Himari"       "Kenta"        "Akari"       
#>  [61] "Daiki"        "Riko"         "Naoki"        "Ayumi"        "Minho"       
#>  [66] "Jisoo"        "Joon"         "Seo"          "Tae"          "Yuna"        
#>  [71] "Woo"          "Minji"        "Dae"          "Eunji"        "Sung"        
#>  [76] "Hana"         "Hyun"         "Jiwon"        "Seok"         "Nari"        
#>  [81] "Jiho"         "Somin"        "Junho"        "Yuri"         "Minsoo"      
#>  [86] "Soyeon"       "Donghyun"     "Chaeyoung"    "Bataar"       "Oyun"        
#>  [91] "Bold"         "Altai"        "Temuulen"     "Sarnai"       "Ganzorig"    
#>  [96] "Enkhtuya"     "Erdene"       "Narantsetseg" "Munkh"        "Tsetseg"     
#> [101] "Baatar"       "Oyunbileg"    "Chuluun"      "Bolormaa"    

# Count names per region
sapply(GLOBAL_NAMES, length)
#>      western_europe      eastern_europe     southern_europe              nordic 
#>                  64                  72                  72                  80 
#>                arab             persian             turkish        central_asia 
#>                  64                  48                  48                  48 
#>          south_asia           east_asia      southeast_asia         west_africa 
#>                  96                 104                  96                  64 
#>         east_africa     southern_africa        north_africa      central_africa 
#>                  56                  48                  48                  40 
#>       north_america       latin_america           caribbean indigenous_americas 
#>                  48                  72                  48                  48 
#>        australia_nz     pacific_islands  indigenous_oceania       jewish_hebrew 
#>                  40                  48                  48                  40 
#>   armenian_georgian 
#>                  32 

# Total names available
sum(sapply(GLOBAL_NAMES, length))
#> [1] 1472