Nice !
Congrats for your completion of your contribution ^^

For the quick question
I think "vc_" stand for "Vocaloid" and those character seems came from Vocaloid as well
With note that I don't know is it right, but I really sure it is (Only the creator can verify)

Also
Other hats with specific suffix with separation between its name (separator "_") stand for where they come from, but shorter. Another example: "sm_" prefix stand for "Super Mario" <- For case if you're asking this as well

I hope I answer the question correctly ^^

This is only a preview of what I had completed so far; there are still many more teams that I could add, but am starting to run out of unique ways to name them. While I'll still try my best to get more names and team sets here, I need more people to suggest me, too.

Maybe don't forget about the original names.zip; I updated this file to include my latest changes, and it comes with the large names list. I have a more exhaustive names list here: http://45.21.218.32:81/wikinames/wikinames.zip
This list-set has been developed for use with Hedgewars, but the lists may be used anywhere else where names are needed as they are released into the public domain with CC0. They are sourced from Wikipedia pages. To make organization easier, they have been split into multiple files. I also accommodated non-Western names in the mix, as part of one my goals to make Hedgewars more diverse.


To actually use this list-set, the .txt files must be placed in the same directory where the hat configs are (Data/Names); it is okay to place them in the user data directory. However, the names are not yet usable at this point; I provided a config file for NoHat: http://45.21.218.32:81/hedgewars-work/Names/NoHat.cfg; configs for other hats must be created manually.
I hope that this list-set provides us all with more names that we should be less likely to run out of.

BTW, I have also created several more teams in this file (place in user data directory for it to work), and also altered some more: http://45.21.218.32:81/hedgewars-work/Names/types.ini
Note that this file can always change, so check back regularly for any updates.

So, new content is definitely appreciated - I think one intent of the automatic names though, was to go for fun/funny/cute/themed. Not so much just "generic person names in language X" - much the same as the goal of rest of game. Could grab all of openclipart and turn it into game maps, but doesn't mean they'd play well or look good

One addendum to the prior comment would be that if people do want to try a large list of generic names, basically anything under Data can be hosted on our DLC if you want to package it for them. Make an HWP and I'll toss it on there. I bet text compresses really well.

You might also be interested in:

https://hedgewars.org/node/6451