Anyone who works with human names should take a look at the HL7 V3 and FHIR data models, which were designed for healthcare. They support name validity ranges,

Anyone who works with human names should take a look at the HL7 V3 and FHIR data models, which were designed for healthcare. They support name validity ranges, and a bunch of other related metadata. It can be challenging to efficiently represent those abstract data models in a traditional traditional database because with a fully normalized schema you end up needing a lot of joins.