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bairwell/faker-en-gb-ons-firstnames
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First names/Forenames from the UK's Office of National Statistics as a provider for Faker

v1.0.1(6y ago)089MITPHPPHP >=7.1

Since Aug 29Pushed 6y agoCompare

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Need forenames that "look real" for a UK orientated application (for example, for testing search facilities or for creating a honeypot system)? Well, this is the [Faker](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker) provider library for you!

Seeded with data from the UK's Office Of National Statistics and containing 16,964 male first names/forenames/given names and 22,174 female first names (based on registered births in England and Wales for 1996-2016 and Scotland 2016-2017) - all complete with frequency weighting - so the data "looks right".

The names are formatted using [namecase](https://github.com/tamtamchik/namecase).

License
=======

[](#license)

The Data is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 as per

This package is not supported/sponsored/acknowledged/recommended by the UK Government or the Office of National Statistics. It is entirely unofficial.

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
    $faker=new \Faker\Generator();
    $faker->addProvider(new \Bairwell\Faker\EnGbOns\Firstnames\Firstnames($faker));
    $fakeName=$faker->firstName;

```

###  Health Score

25

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LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

2448d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16501974?v=4)[Bairwell Ltd](/maintainers/bairwell)[@bairwell](https://github.com/bairwell)

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Top Contributors

[![rbairwell](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/775269?v=4)](https://github.com/rbairwell "rbairwell (4 commits)")

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Tags

fakerfaker-providerfirst-namesforenamesnationalarchivesonsopen-dataphp

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