Cool, my last name is not in this.
Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
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Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#62It's exhaustive and yet my first name is not there...
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you move to another country I am of the opinion that you should have a certain respect for the conventions of the welcoming country. So you might not agree with their naming conventions, but why should I expect the country to change just because I show up on the scene?
In an English speaking county, having a separate surname aids in sorting and presentation of family unities. The character set is typically A-Z. In Spain e.g. one expects a person the have two surnames. The default — but this can be changed – is that first name is from the father and the second one from the mother. By looking at the order of your name you can get information about family structures. Character set is A-Z + Ñ + umlauts and accent marks.
Going to an English speaking country I could expect them to spell my first name correctly; but since it contains a character outside A-Z I change my name to comply with their modus operandi. Yes, their computer system probably supports UTF8, but most people have never heard of this character and you won't find it on their keyboard. No problem, I change my name to comply with their system.
In Spain official forms often expect two surnames and certain characters. No problem, I use an extra hyphen, change my name, use my middle name as a surname or whatever makes the system happy.
Is it perfect? No. Does it really matter? No. So I just respect their customs and get on with my life as a respectful guest in the country where I am living.
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#64Definitely not exhaustive, please don't use this for validation.
I can't wait for the first website to tell me they won't do business with me because I have an invalid name. It's just the next step from forcing me to remove "invalid characters".
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#65A \w{19,} regex found me a lovely poetic name of Lllllllllllllllllll
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#66I 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":…
It's also missing all the names that are composed of multiple words (and thus contains spaces) which is very common for Dutch last names.
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#67It doesn't even contain the author's name
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#68Wrong things that programmers believe: https://boingboing.net/2016/10/18/wrong-things-that-programm...
Re: Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
#69Exhaustive? Does net seem to be that exhaustive to me.
It doesn't have my last name nor the last names of some family and friends I tried.
Perhaps just "a large list of scraped names"?
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#70Somewhat 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 think it's an "exhaustive" list under the limitations for those who do have a first and last name. Once you expand it to surnames and given names, it's a lot more complex.
> I think it's an "exhaustive" list under the limitations for those who do have a first and last name.
It is not. I have a single first and a single last name, both ASCII-safe. I am not on the list.