I find that I often need these dictionaries and lists in various projects so I'm keeping them here.

warning: this repository is ~50MB.

• states.csv - State names and abbreviations source
• wordlist.txt - dictionary from opernwall.
• cities.xml - a list of 12,450 cities with coordinates and population in a very verbose xml format; snatched from mapserver.org
• top500.domains.04.13.csv - top 500 domains according to http://www.seomoz.org/top500
• top10000en.txt - top 10k US english words by frequency distribution
• male-first-names - approx 1k most common US male names with freq dist.
• female-first-names - approx 1k most common US female names with freq dist.
• surnames - approx 1k most US surnames with freq dist.