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Parents have/supply meaningful data. A name of their newborn child isn’t meaningful data ;)

• kiitos 3y ago
  If that name is expected to be a unique identifier, then certainly not!
  • nivertech 3y ago
    First name is a locally unique identifier for some period of time (usually a lifetime, otherwise for at least a decade) until a child will change it for any reason (e.g. immigration, conversion to a different religion, gender re-assignment, a recommendation from a personal psychic, or simply not liking it). But yes, it's not a true semantic key since the first name usually doesn't come from an immutable properties of the child, but the last name can be a semantic key, derived from the properties of the family (e.g. geographic origin, profession, hair color, look, etc.)