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As both Ryley and Reilly are present, with Rian but no Ryan ...

Did you consider delving into the swampy waters of homophone names (and the tangential cesspool of alternative spelling and pronounciations) ?

Fortuneately the pool of babies named including unicode emoji's is still low in number.

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I have been working on an algorithm to combine names with pronunciations that overlap, based on ARPAbet phoneme representations from CMU dict + generated by LLMs. The data is still messy, because "creative" spellings are hard for LLMs to deal with: token overlap with primary names is frequently low, and spelling variations only exist because English has such a lax approach to phonics to begin with.

Here's Ryan with its spelling variations: https://nameplay.org/names/combined/popularity/Ryan

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