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Live examples below use birth date 1990-01-01 to limit results to a manageable set. Toggle filters on/off to see rows added or removed.

Exact

PREFIX

Searches for names starting with 'JESU' and 'STARLIN'

Phonetic

Soundex matches names that sound like 'JESUS STARLING'

Phonetic

DM finds names that sound like 'JESUS STARLING' (Slavic/Germanic variants)

Fuzzy

Levenshtein allows up to 2 edits from 'JESU STARLING'

Fuzzy

Trigram ranks by character overlap with 'JESUS STARLING'

Combo

Soundex finds broad matches, Levenshtein narrows to typos

Combo

DM + Levenshtein: better for Slavic/Germanic names