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US Name Generator - Miami

US Name Generator - Miami

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US Modern Names — Regional Pack

Eight prebuilt versions of the names lorebook, one per US region. Import one. Weights and name lists are already set — there's nothing to configure.

If you don't know which to pick, use US_Names_National.json.

| File | Setting | Dominant mix | |---|---|---| | US_Names_National.json | Anywhere / unspecified | White 58%, Hispanic 19%, Black 12% | | US_Names_RuralMidwest.json | Iowa, Nebraska, Dakotas, rural MN/WI | White 85%, Hispanic 9% | | US_Names_DeepSouth.json | MS, AL, GA, LA, the Carolinas | White 57%, Black 38% | | US_Names_SouthTexas.json | Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, San Antonio | Hispanic 92%, White 6% | | US_Names_Miami.json | Miami / South Florida | Hispanic 70%, White 13%, Haitian 7% | | US_Names_BayArea.json | SF Bay, Seattle, West Coast metro | White 30%, Hispanic 24%, Chinese 12% | | US_Names_NYC.json | NYC and Northeast metro | Hispanic 42%, White 17%, Black 14% | | US_Names_Southwest.json | New Mexico, N. Arizona, Four Corners | Hispanic 43%, White 40%, Navajo 11% |

Install and usage are identical to the base book — see the main README. Import one file, activate it globally or per character, done.

Don't run two of these at once. They share an inclusion group, so they'd compete.

These aren't just reweighted

Each file also swaps the contents of its pools where the national lists would be wrong. The weight changes are the obvious part; these are the ones you'd never think to make by hand:

  • Miami — Hispanic pool is Cuban and Colombian (Cabrera, Betancourt, Valdes, Quintana, Machado, Ospina, Restrepo), not Mexican. Barajas, Zavala, Orozco and friends are gone entirely. The Black cohort leans Haitian, with matched given names (Fritzner, Marie-Ange, Guerline) alongside surnames like Saint-Fleur, Dorvil and Fils-Aimé.
  • NYC — Hispanic is Puerto Rican and Dominican (Colón, Nieves, Feliciano, Cotto, Báez, Peralta, Ureña, Polanco). White pool is Italian, Ashkenazi and Irish heavy. Black pool adds Anglo-Caribbean surnames (Grant, Campbell, Clarke, Bailey, Gordon).
  • Southwest — Hispano surnames from centuries-old New Mexican families (Baca, Montoya, Vigil, Griego, Archuleta, Maestas, Tafoya, Cordova), not recent Mexican immigration.
  • South Texas — Tejano surnames (Cantú, Longoria, Treviño, Sáenz, Garza, Cavazos, Villarreal) plus a German-Texan layer in the Anglo pool (Schmidt, Boehm, Kallus).
  • Bay Area — the Chinese pool mixes Cantonese romanizations (Wong, Chan, Ng, Yee, Louie, Fong, Chin, Leung) with Mandarin pinyin, reflecting both four-generation Chinatown families and recent mainland immigration. National uses pinyin only. The Filipino pool is expanded — Daly City has the highest Filipino concentration in the country.
  • Rural Midwest — German, Scandinavian, Polish and Czech surnames. Italian and Ashkenazi removed.
  • Deep South — English and Scots-Irish, plus Louisiana French (Broussard, Fontenot, Thibodeaux, Landry). The African/Caribbean immigrant pool is off entirely; the Black population here is overwhelmingly multi-generational American.

Cohorts that are switched off

Each file only contains the pools that belong there. Deep South ships with four pools; Bay Area ships with eleven. A cohort that's absent can't fire — that's the point.

Navajo appears only in the Southwest file.

Where the numbers come from

Weights are derived from ACS county-level race and ethnicity estimates, anchored to real geographies:

| Profile | Anchor county / counties | |---|---| | Miami | Miami-Dade County, FL | | NYC | Bronx + Queens County, NY (blended) | | South Texas | Hidalgo County, TX | | Southwest | Bernalillo + San Juan County, NM (weighted 80/20 toward Bernalillo) | | Bay Area | Alameda + Santa Clara County, CA (blended) | | Rural Midwest | Iowa statewide, adjusted toward non-metro counties | | Deep South | Rural Mississippi and Alabama |

A few of the source figures, for reference: Miami-Dade is about 69% Hispanic, 14% Black and 13% White. Hidalgo County is roughly 92% Hispanic. The Bronx is around 55% Hispanic and 29% Black; Queens is about 26% Asian.

The detailed-origin tables also confirmed the composition swaps were pointed the right way — Cubans are just over half of Miami-Dade's Hispanic population, and the Bronx's is roughly 40% Puerto Rican and 33% Dominican.

The weights are grounded. The surname lists are not. ACS contains no names, and the Census surname product is national-only with Hispanic as a single undifferentiated category — so "which surnames are Cuban rather than Mexican" isn't answerable from census data at any level. Those lists remain editorial judgment. They're good enough for roleplay and shouldn't be cited as data.

Caveats on specific profiles

  • Southwest ships with Navajo at 11%, which reflects the Four Corners reality but is high for a story set purely in Albuquerque. Drop it to ~4% for a city-only setting.
  • South Texas is anchored on Hidalgo County, which is more heavily Hispanic than San Antonio or Corpus Christi. For those, raise White toward 25–30%.
  • NYC blends the Bronx and Queens, which are very different places. A Bronx-only story wants more Hispanic and Black and much less Asian; a Queens-only story wants the reverse.
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Your bot's NPC names are all the same five. These aren't: census-weighted pools for a Miami setting, 69% Hispanic and Cuban rather than Mexican — Cabrera, Betancourt, Valdés, Machado. Haitian names get their own matched pool.

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