https://github.com/bellingcat/name-variant-search

A tool for searching common variations of a human name
https://github.com/bellingcat/name-variant-search

alias generator javascript open-source-research website

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A tool for searching common variations of a human name

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bellingcat/name-variant-search
• Owner: bellingcat
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-07-18T09:18:38.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-26T13:25:44.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-30T00:42:03.738Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: alias, generator, javascript, open-source-research, website
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://bellingcat.github.io/name-variant-search/
• Size: 3.79 MB
• Stars: 48
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Name Variant Search Tool

https://bellingcat.github.io/name-variant-search/

### Motivation

When researching an individual online, it is useful to search not only for their full legal name but also for many variants. This can become tedious and time consuming for the researcher and could be streamlined.

### Goal

Given a person's name, generate various plausible alternative forms of the name and streamline the work of researching each one.

## Generating variants

Generating variants is handled by the node module [alias-generator](https://github.com/bellingcat/alias-generator)

TextGain's language ID api may be useful when deciding which culturally-specific variants to include: https://apiv2.textgain.com/redoc#tag/Identification/operation/language_identification_language_post