Fwd: [Corpora-List] Looking for lexicons of names

[Bill Lund]

You might try the US Census list of personal and family names which  
can be found at http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html

The list includes frequency information, but not pronunciation.

Best regards,

Bill Lund

email: bill_lund at byu.edu
work: 801-422-4202
fax: 801-422-0466
cell: 801-319-9845


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Eric Ringger" <ringger at cs.byu.edu>
> Date: January 22, 2007 9:39:07 PM MST
> To: "'Bill Lund'" <bill_lund at byu.edu>
> Subject: FW: [Corpora-List] Looking for lexicons of names
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> Fyi
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> Perhaps you could steer this individual to the lists you used in  
> your recent projects.
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> Thanks,
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> --Eric
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> From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner- 
> corpora at lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Lesley Carmichael
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 6:28 PM
> To: corpora at lists.uib.no
> Subject: [Corpora-List] Looking for lexicons of names
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> Greetings,
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> I’m looking for lexicons of names (people’s first names and  
> surnames) in any language. Ideally, the lexicons would have  
> pronunciations as well; however, I would still be interested in  
> names lexicons without pronunciations, such as census data. If you  
> know of lexicons that are commercially available, or have  
> recommendations regarding names lexicon development, please email me.
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> Thank you,
>
> Lesley Carmichael
>
> Microsoft Speech Components Group