diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4d8aaa5..c4ced78 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Imports:
     tidymodels,
     tidyverse,
     tidyr,
-    wakefield,
     writexl
 Suggests:
     downlit,
diff --git a/intro.qmd b/intro.qmd
index 70adb96..8a76850 100644
--- a/intro.qmd
+++ b/intro.qmd
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ In this book, we'll use five data packages from outside the tidyverse:
 ```{r}
 #| eval: false
 
-install.packages(c("gapminder", "Lahman", "nycflights13", "palmerpenguins", "wakefield"))
+install.packages(c("gapminder", "Lahman", "nycflights13", "palmerpenguins"))
 ```
 
 These packages provide data on world development, baseball, airline flights, and body measurements of penguins that we'll use to illustrate key data science ideas, while the final one helps generate random data sets.
diff --git a/joins.qmd b/joins.qmd
index 392bc6c..033752a 100644
--- a/joins.qmd
+++ b/joins.qmd
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ Now imagine that you have a table of employee birthdays:
 
 ```{r}
 employees <- tibble(
-  name = wakefield::name(100),
+  name = sample(babynames::babynames$name, 100),
   birthday = lubridate::ymd("2022-01-01") + (sample(365, 100, replace = TRUE) - 1)
 )
 employees
diff --git a/strings.qmd b/strings.qmd
index dd8f097..c8199d5 100644
--- a/strings.qmd
+++ b/strings.qmd
@@ -171,8 +171,7 @@ str_c("Hello ", c("John", "Susan"))
 `str_c()` is very similar to the base `paste0()`, but is designed to be used with `mutate()` by obeying the usual tidyverse rules for recycling and propagating missing values:
 
 ```{r}
-set.seed(1410)
-df <- tibble(name = c(wakefield::name(3), NA))
+df <- tibble(name = c("Flora", "David", "Terra"))
 df |> mutate(greeting = str_c("Hi ", name, "!"))
 ```
 
@@ -636,7 +635,8 @@ To avoid this problem, stringr defaults to English rules by using the "en" local
 Fortunately, there are two sets of functions where the locale really matters: changing case and sorting.
 
 The rules for changing cases differ among languages.
-For example, Turkish has two i's: with and without a dot. Since they're two distinct letters, they're capitalized differently:
+For example, Turkish has two i's: with and without a dot.
+Since they're two distinct letters, they're capitalized differently:
 
 ```{r}
 str_to_upper(c("i", "ı"))