title: List of proper names?
body: <p>I'm trying to filter names out of text blobs. Currently I'm just generating a words list and filtering it by hand but I've got ~8k words to go so I'm looking for a better way. I could grab a dictionary and filter them out but that would cull names like smith and cliff.</p>
  
  <p>What I need is either of the following:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>a list of common names (I'd need the >5k most common names)</li>
  <li>a list of names that also happen to be words</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I figure between them, I can do a combined blacklist/whitelist to get what I need.</p>