A well known phonetic matching algorithm is Soundex, I think it is built-in in Oracle, it is definitely ok to start with... it is very important for names, not only people names but also companies, that people many times fail to spell or has a few variations. Specially if users come from different language backgrounds. I also used type-ahead in a similar search (but not only for last name).
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