Aexname

Aexname is a modular name-generation framework designed to produce culturally diverse and pronounceable names for software localization, video games, and data anonymization. The project emphasizes inclusivity, phonotactic plausibility, and reproducible results, offering tools to generate given names, surnames, and toponyms that reflect a wide range of language families while avoiding reliance on real individuals.

Origin and scope: Aexname originated in an open-source collaboration among linguists and software engineers who sought a transparent, configurable alternative to ad hoc name lists. It provides a pluggable set of linguistic rules, language profiles, and generation templates that can be tuned for specific cultural contexts or global applications.

Technical design: The framework integrates a core engine that assembles syllables from language-appropriate inventories, a constraint layer that enforces phonotactics and orthographic conventions, and an evaluation module that flags potentially problematic outputs. It ships with language profiles for multiple families and allows users to add custom datasets. The output supports various scripts, transliteration, and metadata tagging (gender, region, era).

Usage and reception: Aexname is used in game development, localization pipelines, and synthetic data production for testing privacy-preserving systems. It is released under an open-source license, with ongoing maintenance and community contributions. Users are encouraged to review naming policies to mitigate cultural insensitivity and to customize datasets to their project’s needs.