Random name generation

Question

I need to generate a large number of demonstration records for a users database. I'd like to have vaguely credible looking names and e-mails but not based on any real data for reasons of data protection.
Anyone got a good random name and/or address generator to hand? I was thinking of constructing a Markov chain of letter sequences from some English text, though I'm told this doesn't look that good.

Answer 1

As stated, this has nothing to do with java.
But actually I've done the same thing once (in Perl actually), and so have a useful tip: The U.S. Census office has (or had a couple years ago) some data about the most common names in the U.S. at the time of the previous census. It listed the most common family names, and male and female given names, from most to least common, along with a percentage. This information was freely given out on their web site.
With these files, it was pretty easy to write a 20-line (or so) brute-force perl script that would read in the files, then generate a series of statistically likely names. I faked emails too, by just grabbing the first 6 or 7 chars from the last name and one or two from the first, tweaked as necessary to make them unique.
(BTW, this was necessary, because a purely randomly generated list of names is obviously wrong from a quick (human) inspection. Without balancing the names by likelihood, you get as many Hubert Bigglesworths as you do John Smiths.)
So my advice is, check the census office of the government of the country whose names you're trying to fake out.
Also, I think Perl is more appropriate for this task than Java, by the way. It's great for quick-and-dirty text processing like this.