Some ideas

[mathew davis]

 I agree it could work like the microsoft intellisence.  When you start
typing the word it does a look up and tries to autofill the rest if you hit
space once the right name is highlighted then it finishes it off for you.

Either that or allow users to search by first or last name.  You might be
able to avoid most identical names with a combination of the two..
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