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    <p>In addition to the other good info here, you might want to consider using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Metaphone" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Double Metaphone</a> phonetic algorithm which is generally considered to be better than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SOUNDEX</a>. </p> <p>Tim Pfeiffer details an implementation in SQL in his article <a href="https://www.itprotoday.com/software-development/double-metaphone-sounds-great" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Double Metaphone Sounds Great Convert the C++ Double Metaphone algorithm to T-SQL</a> (originally in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091207025605/http://www.sqlmag.com:80/Articles/ArticleID/26094/pg/1/1.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="ARCHIVE of http:&#47;&#47;www.sqlmag.com:80/Articles/ArticleID/26094/pg/1/1.html">SQL Mag</a> &amp; then in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130725060153/http://sqlmag.com:80/t-sql/double-metaphone-sounds-great" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="ARCHIVE of http:&#47;&#47;sqlmag.com/t-sql/double-metaphone-sounds-great">SQL Server Pro</a>). </p> <p>That will assist in matching names with slight misspellings, e.g., <em>Carl</em> vs. <em>Karl</em>.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: The actual downloadable code seems to be gone, but <a href="https://github.com/mb16/geocoderNet/blob/master/build/sql/doubleMetaphone.sql" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here's an implementation found on a github repo</a> that appears to have cloned the original code</p>
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