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OK, I'm stumped. I'd like to get a download of the most common U.S. surnames for certain decades so I can create a names file and get historically accurate names for my new league (which begins in 1947). The same goes for first names.

I've looked at Questdogs files, but I see two issues -- one, it only deals with first names, and two, it requires replacement of OOTP's nations.txt file with 228 nations with Questdogs' nations.txt file with only 31 nations.

The task is easy; finding the data isn't -- especially the last names. The U.S. Census website has databases for names from the 1990 census, but that's it.

How have the historical gamers not using actual players dealt with this? If it's 1947, guys like Hector Lopez and Yoshi Kazura shouldn't be on the roster, even if their nationality is American.

Anyone have an idea?

ALSO -- I'm a little confused as to what I need to do with name sets (or even how to modify them). Can someone assist, please?

Thanks!!


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