I 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 separate people by origin or in more homogeneous population.