Mohammed, Mohamed, Muhammad: Why Name Spellings Break Searches
One Arabic name can be written a dozen ways in English. Searches that ignore this miss people and create duplicates.
Arabic names move into English letters in many ways. The same person can appear as Mohammed Al Mansouri on one site, Mohamed Almansoori on another and محمد المنصوري on a third.
Two Problems
- Missed people. Search for one spelling and you see only the profiles written that way.
- Duplicates. The same person shows twice in your list, gets screened twice and, worse, contacted twice.
Common Variations
| Name | Common spellings |
|---|---|
| Mohammed | Mohamed, Muhammad, Mohammad, Mohamad |
| Abdulrahman | Abdul Rahman, Abdelrahman, Abdurrahman |
| Al Mansouri | Al-Mansouri, Almansouri, Al Mansoori |
| Khaled | Khalid, Khaleed |
What Good Tools Do
Treat the spellings as one name: search all of them, match them when checking for duplicates, and include the Arabic form when it exists. Sircho does this in the search box, in duplicate checks and in Boolean Studio, so a name typed once covers its common spellings.
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