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Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by riffraff on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:02AM (#24716322)
I 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".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoveffa_Franchini

Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by Benjamin_Dobell on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:02AM (#24718300)
Well, we've been found out. My family and I don't exist. We had a good run.

EDIT: Yeah, this list is absurdly non-exhaustive. My wife's maiden name isn't even listed and it's a common English surname, noun and verb.

Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by seszett on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:25AM (#24718460)
Well, the list doesn't even have the names of the last three French presidents, the last two Belgian prime ministers, etc.

Actually, I just can't find any French name that I look up. Except for "Michel" (another former Belgian prime minister) but that one was not a very high bar.

So yeah, it's pretty much non-exhaustive and it doesn't take long to find it out.

Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by gmueckl on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:54AM (#24718662)
After a quick scan I could tell that the list of surnames has no names in it that contain letters beyond the basic latin alphabet. That by itself excludes a lot of actually valid names.
Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by LunaSea on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:55AM (#24717572)
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 by tnolet on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:29AM (#24718094)
And Dutch first names: Gert-Jan etc.
Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by Theodores on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:47AM (#24718618)
Note that the list also misses out on Capitalisation. If you want to send messages to Gert-Jan then it needs to be Gert-Jan and not Gert-jan or gert-jan.

With last names this is also an important matter. McDonald is not mcdonald.

Then there is F.W. de Klerk. Not 'De Klerk' or 'de klerk'.

Some people take offence at their name being written wrongly, in this list by having no Title Case going on there could be a few people 'offended'!

Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by OJFord on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:08AM (#24719197)
It seems perfectly common surnames also missed if nobody with that name happened to have a child in the last x years (where x is quite small).

I'm not going to try do statistics, but I reckon that's quite a lot. Census would be a better source than birth registers.

Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by txutxu on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:43AM (#24716852)
Did search for the Basque name "Uxue" and it's not present...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxue

Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by lokedhs on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:35AM (#24718128)
Swedish names are under-represented. For example, there are exactly zero hyphenated names starting with "sven".
Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by junon on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:18AM (#24717359)
It doesn't contain my last name and it's not the most unique one in the world (especially in France).
Re:Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db by wdb on Sunday October 11, 2020 @12:26PM (#24746911)
Yes, my two first names are missing on the list.