Additional nicknames and name variants to add about nicknames

[NickCrews]

Hi! Thanks for opening this! A few things:

1. The relationship between canonical and nickname is not symmetrical. So Matt is a nickname for Matthew, but not vice versa. matt and Matthew are already present in the data, are you just not using this library correctly?
2. I want to be conservative with what links are added, so that there aren't false positives. For instance, I'm skeptical of how common Barrett-Garrett is. 95% of your suggestions look good, but I want to leave out a few of the weirder ones.
3. I can add these cases to the code, but only if you help me with the grunt work of formatting for me, putting these in the form CANONICAL,NICK0,NICK1,NICK2, etc

Let me know what you'd like to do!

[afeibus]

I'm unclear on the file structure and how to decide whether something is a name or nickname (e.g, is Kari a real name or a nickname for Carrie?). Would need more info to help with this.

I'm ok if stuff gets left out, the point of my issue report was to try to close some of the holes. Some of the names I'd never seen before either, but then looked up and found they were common in other countries (e.g., Garrett is big in Ireland).

[NickCrews]

The file structure is CANONICAL,NICK0,NICK1,NICK2, NICK3,etc as you can see in the csv. Does that make sense?

Yeah the Kari/Carrie case is ambiguous. I would lean towards Carrie being the longer one and therefore the canonical one. But for the Sara/Sarah case, I think that is symmetrical, so you should have a line sarah,sara as well as sara,sarah. Just try your best and I can go through and give my 2 cents and we should be able to find something. Just trying to make it better than how it currently is, it doesn't need to be perfect.

[afeibus]

names.csv
This is close, maybe not all the possible canonicals, but enough that code could look in the nicknames to find related nicknames as canonical names too.

[NickCrews]

Thank you @afeibus ! I made a few adjustments, but most of them looked great. Thank you very much, your work is very much appreciated! If you want, take a look at the above linked change and double check that I didn't do any changes to your edits that you disagree with.

[NickCrews]

Closing as done, but if you find any problems with the tweaks I made please raise a new issue ( and link to this one)