Exhaustive. Phooey. My last name of Morearty isn't in there.
Hi Brian! didn't know you also read HN ;P
Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel for her. My wife was in the exact same situation, like almost everyone in her home country she had just one given name. When we moved here to the states she found it highly annoying and even limited some opportunities. Recently she decided to legally change her name to something that fits in better here. Although it has been an emotional decision for her, she felt she had to as it's very hard to live in the US…
Why wouldn't she just use your last name when you got married? Seems like a pretty simple solution.
I don’t get why people still take it for granted that a woman should change her name on getting married and use the husband’s name. People should have the names assigned to them at birth or whatever they’ve changed it to as per their wish. I personally find the changing of names on marriage as an erasure of identity, even if the person is ok with it because of internalization or cultural conditioning.
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#43Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name. My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
I am from Tamilnadu, India. We don't have a common family name as last name. And our names mostly have single word. Here children add their father's name as last name. And women once get married will have their husband's name as last name. My name is Kumaran and my father's name is Rajendhiran. So, my full name is Kumaran Rajendhiran.
One word names are called “mononyms”. Your example is again an example. You may have others around you with the same name but write it as Kumaran R (the initial derived from the first letter of the father’s name or the place of origin). Some may not even use an initial. These naming schemes, which are as valid as any other on the planet, have already caused a lot of trouble for people with PAN cards and Aadhaar (I recommend you read up on those if you aren’t aware).
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#44Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name. My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
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#45I have strong doubts this is exhaustive or that it could be.
For one, it doesn't contain the name "Genoveffa" which is the italianized form of Jennifer. There are wikipedia-level people named thus, so it's not that uncommon.[0]
There's an infinite amount of misspelled/localized names outside their country of origin e.g. Maicol for Michael, Sandiago for Santiago, Uilliam, Villiam, Willian etc etc
Aditional "anecdata": I live in a country (Hungary) where you have to apply for a special permit to give an "unusual" name to a kid, and since my son has an italian name we had to do that.
You can see the list of names people requested to add, and it includes random stuff like "Magneto" (which isn't on this list either).
This, to say that basically any given word can be a name in some country, it's likely not possible to have an exhaustive list.
Maybe replace with "extensive".
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#46When would this be useful?
Removal of Personally identifiable information (PII) from text data is the first obvious application that came to mind.
if you do that you will likely wipe out a lot of non-person-name data too, just think of common words used as last names, like "Brown"[0].
It seems to me if you have PII in text data you should treat the whole thing as PII.
[0] although the dataset doesn't actually contain "Brown" as a valid last or first name, go figure.
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#47Definitely not exhaustive, please don't use this for validation.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel for her. My wife was in the exact same situation, like almost everyone in her home country she had just one given name. When we moved here to the states she found it highly annoying and even limited some opportunities. Recently she decided to legally change her name to something that fits in better here. Although it has been an emotional decision for her, she felt she had to as it's very hard to live in the US…
Why wouldn't she just use your last name when you got married? Seems like a pretty simple solution.
> Seems like a pretty simple solution
So is changing her name. But people shouldn't need to do gymnastics for such a trifling matter. This is like cutting a foot to fit a shoe.
Cultures have different naming conventions, and not all cultures pressure women to take names from husbands.
The real simple solution is to accept that the common ground of name form is a string. One string.
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#49I have worked on projects where I needed to extract firstnames and lastnames and if you want to use this dataset to extract names, here are some caveats: - firstnames can be lastnames as well - common words can be names as well - some stop words can be names - the order can change, you can write firstname, lastname or lastname, firstname - Some names are as short as one letter Using ML can be useful if you can separa…
> Some names are as short as one letter
I recently read a French political news story referring to O. It must be a misprint, I thought at first. But there is a French cabinet minister named Cedric O.
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#50I have strong doubts this is exhaustive or that it could be. For one, it doesn't contain the name "Genoveffa" which is the italianized form of Jennifer. There are wikipedia-level people named thus, so it's not that uncommon.[0] There's an infinite amount of misspelled/localized names outside their country of origin e.g. Maicol for Michael, Sandiago for Santiago, Uilliam, Villiam, Willian etc etc Aditional "anecdata":…
Did search for the Basque name "Uxue" and it's not present...