A long time back soundex [1] was used for matching things like names. I imagine there might be yet better algorithms these days but that one probably still sol

A long time back soundex [1] was used for matching things like names. I imagine there might be yet better algorithms these days but that one probably still solves this problem relatively well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex EDIT: I guess there are better ones: metaphone [2] is a modern improvement on soundex. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone