Database of common name aliases / nicknames of people

Question

I\'m involved with a SQL / .NET project that will be searching through a list of names. I\'m looking for a way to return some results on similar first names of people. If se

Answer 1

I'm adding another source for anyone who comes across this question via Google. This project provides a very good lookup for this purpose.

https://github.com/carltonnorthern/nickname-and-diminutive-names-lookup

It's somewhat simpler and less complete than pdNickName but on the other hand it's free and easy to use.