NickName generator

Last modified: April 3, 2025

The NickName generator creates casual, informal, or alternative names to refer to individuals, often reflecting familiarity, personality, or cultural nuances. Nicknames are useful for personalizing applications, social platforms, and entertainment systems or generating user-friendly test data for databases.

Generator properties

The table provides key details about the generator, including the short name, sample of the generated data, the supported data types, and whether it is specific to a particular country.

Short name	Example of generated data	Data type matching	Country-specific
NickName	Jodi1982, Nancey777, …	character varyingcharactertext	Default

Matching rules

The generator can be assigned to a column that matches any of the following rules:

The column name contains ‘name’, ‘nickname’, ‘skype’, ‘alias’, or ‘login’ preceded or followed by any or no characters, regardless of the table name.
The column name contains ‘short’ preceded or followed by any or no characters and ends with ‘name’, regardless of the table name.
The column name starts with ‘middle’ and ends with ‘init’, with any or no characters in between, regardless of the table name.

Configure additional options

The generator produces data based on a regular expression. Since it is built on the RegExp generator, see Regular Expression generator to customize settings and understand the correct usage of syntax.

The Text box displays .txt files that contain a list of male and female first names. The default path to the files is:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Devart\dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL\Data Generators\FirstNamesMale.txt.
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Devart\dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL\Data Generators\FirstNamesFemale.txt.
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Devart\dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL\Data Generators\LastNames.txt.