EuroLitA

Are you really from where you say you are? 😏

What is this? EuroLitA is a satirical "name plausibility" project: it compares your first/last name against a public name-frequency dataset to estimate how likely your claimed origin is.

Where did the idea come from? It’s inspired by the German asylum tech stack around TraLitA (Transliterationsassistent), a BAMF tool for standardising Arabic-to-Latin name transliteration and analysing name frequency distributions.

More (very scarse) details via public FOI requests on FragDenStaat.de: TraLitA user manual/tutorial, consent forms for applicants, and contractor/procurement info.