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https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
Extract the known good ones and filter those out?
Mentor
If you don’t have a list of “valid” names, then don’t.
I'd make a regex that filters for names that have N consecutive consonants, or N consecutive vowels, or no vowels
Won't be perfect. There will definitely be some false positives, some false negatives, and you'll need to manually confirm all hits, but its somewhere to start.
Alternatively, you can look on GitHub for a list of all known names, take the difference of the two sets, and manually confirm what wasn't matched
https://github.com/philipperemy/name-dataset
This may be an issue where the ask itself is off and this isn't actually processing that needs to be done. Or otherwise there is another field that will give you more insightful results
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Please read the article I linked before recommending an approach like this. Those of us with unusual names would really like it if people like you stopped “cleaning them up”