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mimesis

Mimesis is a fast Python library for generating fake data in multiple languages.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

mimesis has 2.3M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 19.1.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is used by 39 tracked packages, including dipex, opensearch-benchmark and testdatax.

GitHub topics include mimesis, fake and data.

Downloads
Day
84.6K
Week
518.5K
Month
2.3M
Stars
4.8K
Forks
359
Issues
11
Version
19.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
77
Adoption
70
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
168 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,291,932
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,291,932
Stars
4,821
Stars per 1k downloads
2.10
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
74,073
Month daily avg
76,398
Momentum
-3.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
176 days ago
Total releases
62
Releases/year
6.9
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
110
Monthly downloads
2,291,932
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
73
 
Issue Burden
2.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 17.4K
macOS 281
Windows 105

Python Versions

3.13
50.5% 8.6K
3.12
23.4% 4.0K
3.11
14.7% 2.5K
3.8
7.3% 1.2K
3.10
4.1% 706

Top Countries

1. US US
15.9K
2. SG SG
474
3. GB GB
258
4. NL NL
207
5. AU AU
196
6. FI FI
165
7. DE DE
120
8. ID ID
106
9. RU RU
71
10. HK HK
48

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 15, 2017
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
19.1.0
Total Releases
62
Contributors
110
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
data database dataframe datascince dummy factory factory_boy fake faker fixtures generate mimesis mock pandas polars populate pytest schema testing
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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