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Hi Lucille, you can try this:

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1. turn on the advanced search options
2. search for pronunciations that are NOT * (the * matches anything)
3. select the checkbox "negative matches include missing pronunciations"
4. you will probably want to narrow by selecting a pronunciation language and a usage

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Here is a search for Spanish names that do not have a Spanish pronunciation:
https://www.behindthename.com/names/browse.php?operator_usage=is&value_usage[]=spanish&operator_sound=isnot&value_sound[]=%2A&langoperator_sound=is&lang_sound[]=spanish&incnopron_sound=1

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You can apply this same search to the user-submitted collection of names by using the link near the bottom of the page.

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To answer your P.S., if you check the "search IPA" checkbox when doing this search, you will get names that are missing IPA. (This will always be a superset of the original search, since all names that have an IPA pronunciation also have a simplified pronunciation.) Unfortunately there is no way to search for names that have a simplified pronunciation AND do NOT have an IPA pronunciation, except by comparing the results of the two searches.