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A tool for matching English first names with their shortened version.
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2014-04-08
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Hypocorism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocorism

A tool for matching English first names with their shortened version.

Usage

To determine if a one version of a person's first name matches another version, use Hypocorism.match:

Hypocorism.match('Robert', 'Rob') == true
Hypocorism.match('Dave', 'David') == true
Hypocorism.match('Rob', 'David') == false

To find the names that match a given first name, use Hypocorism.variations_of:

Hypocorism.variations_of('Aaron') == ["Aaron", "Ron", "Ronni", "Ronnie", "Ronny", "Ronney", "Erin", "Ronald"]

However, note that some short names are used across a number of names. So

Hypocorism.variations_of('Ron')

Will return:

[
  "Aaron", "Ron", "Ronni", "Ronnie", "Ronny", "Ronney", "Erin", "Ronald",
  "Cameron", "Cam", "Naldo", "Ronaldo", "Roland", "Reginald", "Veronica",
  "Franki", "Frankie", "Franky", "Frankey", "Ronna", "Vonni", "Vonnie",
  "Vonny", "Vonney", "Froni", "Fronie", "Frony", "Froney", "Vicki", "Vickie",
  "Vicky", "Vickey"
]

Source data

This tool uses data from this source:

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/BRIANL/Lingua-EN-Nickname-1.17/nicknames.txt