- Where do the surnames come from?
- First names come from INSEE's register of names given to babies born in France since 1945, and surnames from INSEE's list of surnames of people born 1941–2000.
- What does “Common” do?
- In “Common” mode surnames are weighted by how many people have them. “Any” gives every surname the same chance.
Need this in code? The same data is available as JSON: GET /api/v1/fr/last-names · API docs