The announcement says the sample is from the "apac" region, which I think is Asia-Pacific.
It says sample "from apac region" right in the pastebin.
Oh. I missed that. That makes sense then.
More specifically, all the sample data is from Malaysia. So you'll get mostly Chinese, Malay and Indian names.
(I'm Malaysian).
Thanks!
(by the way, I want to visit Singapore in the summer once I have my finals done. But that's beside the point.)
there is surprisingly large amount of Asian-sounding and Middle-East-sounding names there. Not sure how the data was chosen, but I would expect more... white-sounding names.