American Name Generator

Like many people, I like to rely on a random name generator for the names of incidental characters in the games I run. This is problematic in the context of a game set in the modern United States of America, because there isn't an ideal name generator that reflects America's diverse name origins, Anglicization and artifacts of assimilation, and other quirks. fantasynamegenerators.com is normally an all-star, but its American Name Generator just gives you English names, which works fine I guess but gives up on diverse name origins. Simply all-sending on behindthename.com's Random Name Generator does give you varied names, but has several problems for this application-- the names are generally quite "authentic" and almost never show signs of assimilation, the weighting of the names is based on how many names of different origins the website has rather than US demographics, and names of a particular culture aren't connected to surnames of that same culture.I've put together a simple tool…