This is a short tutorial on how to generate random names with PHP. With PHP you can automatically generate random name using this script.

In this example, we have two PHP arrays. One contains a list of common names. The other contains a list of common surnames. Using the function mt_rand.

Demo

<?php
$names = array(
    'Hardik',
    'Shivam',
    'Nirmal',
    'Kaushik',
    'Pradip',
    'Rixit',
    'Neel',
    'Samantha',
);
 
//PHP array containing surnames.
$surnames = array(
    'Patel',
    'Thompson',
    'Anderson',
    'Johnson',
    'Tremblay',
    'Peltier',
    'Cunningham',
    'Simpson',
    'Mercado',
    'Sellers'
);
 
//Generate a random name.
$random_name = $names[mt_rand(0, sizeof($names) - 1)];
 
//Generate a random surname.
$random_surname = $surnames[mt_rand(0, sizeof($surnames) - 1)];
 
//Combine them together and print out the result.
echo $random_name . ' ' . $random_surname;
?>