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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 a
by riffraff 6y ago
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoveffa_Franchini
- wdb 6y agoYes, my two first names are missing on the list.
- txutxu 6y agoDid search for the Basque name "Uxue" and it's not present... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxue
- junon 6y agoIt doesn't contain my last name and it's not the most unique one in the world (especially in France).
- LunaSea 6y agoIt's also missing all the names that are composed of multiple words (and thus contains spaces) which is very common for Dutch last names.
- tnolet 6y agoAnd Dutch first names: Gert-Jan etc.
- Theodores 6y agoNote 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'!
- lokedhs 6y agoSwedish names are under-represented. For example, there are exactly zero hyphenated names starting with "sven".
- Benjamin_Dobell 6y agoWell, 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.
- seszett 6y agoWell, 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.
- gmueckl 6y agoAfter 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.
- OJFord 6y agoIt 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.