When my team first started out with SVN we all just used our first names when committing to the repository, however, now that our team has grown, we are running into issues
You can use svndumptool:
svnadmin dump path/to/my/repo > repo.dump svndumptool transform-revprop svn:author originalregexp newvalue repo.dump newrepo.dump
svnadmin dump path/to/my/repo > repo.dump
svndumptool transform-revprop svn:author originalregexp newvalue repo.dump newrepo.dump