Nicknames database

Question

I'm interested in being able to identify a name like "Nick" as a short form of a name like "Nicholas" in a data set.

Is there any kind of open or somewhat standardized mapping of names and nicknames available? I am fine if it's limited to Western or American English names, but international data is even better.

Answer 1

Nicknames and Diminutive Names Lookup (CSV)
CSV, Database of Common Nicknames and its GitHub Repository: Common Nickname CSV (Database)
Name to Nickname CSV and Nickname to Name CSV

Answer 2

Wikidata has a nickname property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449

which can be used with given names https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202444 or https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82799

which you can query with SPARQL https://query.wikidata.org

This approach may give you a more "real-life" dataset, and statistics about how many nicknames map back to given names, etc.

Answer 3

Two more hypocorism (=diminutive form of a name) datasets:

• https://github.com/brianary/Lingua-EN-Nickname/blob/master/nicknames.txt
• https://github.com/jonathanhar/diminutives.db:
  • https://github.com/jonathanhar/diminutives.db/blob/master/female_diminutives.csv
  • https://github.com/jonathanhar/diminutives.db/blob/master/male_diminutives.csv

Related: large (160k) dataset of mames worldwide https://github.com/philipperemy/name-dataset