About this random name generator
Placeholder names are one of those small needs that keeps reappearing: a test fixture, a seating chart, a screenshot for a demo, a character who needs a label before they need a personality. This generator pairs a first name with a surname from authored banks spanning several naming traditions, so a generated list does not read as one culture repeated. Names are drawn with the browser cryptographic random source rather than a simple pseudo-random call, and duplicates are filtered out before the list is shown, so twenty names means twenty distinct names. Everything happens locally: nothing is stored, nothing is sent, and reloading gives a fresh list. These are invented combinations rather than records of real people, but with any name generator, a combination can coincide with a real person by chance, so treat generated names as placeholders rather than as safely fictional.