CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Returns a random last name from an internal list. Stupidly simple but handly non the less. List was taken from England/Wales top 100 at http://www.taliesin-arlein.net

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#randomLastName()#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

No arguments.

Full UDF Source:

<!---
 Returns a random last name.
 
 @return Returns a string. 
 @author Matt Casey (matt@digitalhappy.com) 
 @version 1, June 18, 2010 
--->
<cffunction name="randomLastName" output="false" access="public" returntype="any" hint="">
    <cfset names = "Adams,Ahmed,Ali,Allen,Anderson,Bailey,Baker,Barker,Barnes,Begum,Bell,Bennett,Brown,Butler,Campbell,Carter,Chapman,Clark,Clarke,Collins,Cook,Cooper,Cox,Davies,Davis,Dixon,Edwards,Ellis,Evans,Fisher,Foster,Gray,Green,Griffiths,Hall,Harris,Harrison,Harvey,Hill,Holmes,Hughes,Hunt,Hussain,Jackson,James,Jenkins,Johnson,Jones,Kelly,Khan,King,Knight,Lee,Lewis,Lloyd,Marshall,Martin,Mason,Matthews,Miller,Mills,Mitchell,Moore,Morgan,Morris,Murphy,Owen,Palmer,Parker,Patel,Phillips,Powell,Price,Richards,Richardson,Roberts,Robinson,Rogers,Russell,Scott,Shaw,Simpson,Singh,Smith,Stevens,Taylor,Thomas,Thompson,Turner,Walker,Ward,Watson,Webb,White,Wilkinson,Williams,Wilson,Wood,Wright,Young" />    
    <cfreturn listGetAt(names, randRange(1,100)) />
</cffunction>