title: Plain, computer parseable lists of common first names?
body: <p>I need a list of common first names for people, like "Bill", "Gordon", "Jane", etc. Is there some free list of lots of known names, instead of me having to type them out? Something that I can easily parse with the programme to fill in an array for example?</p>
  
  <p>I'm not worried about:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Knowing if a name is masculine or feminine (or both)</li>
  <li>If the dataset has a whole pile of false positives</li>
  <li>If there are names that aren't on it, obviously no dataset like this will be complete.</li>
  <li>If there are 'duplicates', i.e. I don't care if the dataset lists "Bill" and "William" and "Billy" as different names. I'd rather have more data than less</li>
  <li>I don't care about knowing the popularity the name</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I know <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" rel="noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> has a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names" rel="noreferrer">list of most popular given names</a>, but that's all in a HTML page and manged up with horrible wiki syntax. Is there a better way to get some sample data like this without having to screen scrape wikipedia?</p>