More intl. titles

[kaspersorensen]

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[derek73]

just want to double check confirm that none of these things could potentially be a first name, but it all looks pretty good.

[derek73]

I am not too familiar with German, but we just need to make sure that things in the titles constant are not things that might conceivably be a first name. This would mean that anyone named Frau would have their name parsed incorrectly. When there's two right ways to parse a name, the parser prefers to parse first and last name correctly over titles. Is "Frau" ever used as a first name?

[skurzinz]

I would not be able to think of "Frau" being used as a first name. "Frauke" is a first name, but "Frau" used to be a sign for nobility (as in "Freifrau") in the middle ages, and trickled down to a common denominator of sex/gender lateron. So it would be common to be used in appellative function or when addressing a female person in writing.

[kaspersorensen]

I these are all very legitimate and common titles.
Maybe a bit philosophical at this stage, but ... People can be named the strangest things, so requiring the categories to be distinct is unrealistic in my opinion. I think the role of this library should be to make a "best guess", probably not ONLY based on whether it matches these data points. The amount words and categories of there are also very important factors that the library could take into account (in some future version). For example, I definitely know of people named Prince or Sheikh as their first names. So if we come across such words, we probably need to look at the context to make a best guess about what it means. Same thing applies to the prefixes like "Van" which are very common prefixes but also first names and possibly (unlikely IMO) middle names.

[arska]

I came to make a pull request for 'herr' and 'frau' and found that there is one already. Any blockers I could help working on to get this merged & released @derek73 ? Add some tests?