You can Google and find 2000 census data for the US. The files they have not only have the names but they also have their frequency. I've used this before with great results.
Btw, I load them once, store them in an array and you're good to go. It's really not a huge list (I think about 18,000 surnames with a max of 15 chars each). That sounds like a lot, but really isn't when it comes to memory.
Btw, I load them once, store them in an array and you're good to go. It's really not a huge list (I think about 18,000 surnames with a max of 15 chars each). That sounds like a lot, but really isn't when it comes to memory.