amitness / Thar

Mining all surnames used in Nepal.
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Thar

List of all Surnames used in Nepal.

This is a dataset containing the Nepali surnames in CSV format. There are two files containing the surnames in english and nepali. There are 3000+ surnames.

The nepali dataset is sorted according to Devanagari script while english dataset is sorted in alphabetical order.

Feel free to use it in your projects.

Use Cases:

Make your creative uses of this data. Maybe you can use the data for word suggestions or as a blacklist for spell checker. Or maybe you're doing NLP in Nepali and want data set to identify names from a sentence.

Data Sources:

Only those data sources which ensure that the person is a Nepalese citizen are used. For example, only candidates who have submitted their citizenship photocopy are allowed to give an entrance exam.