(Programming Challenge) Guess my middle name

[Cheesemaster IV]

Inspired by the following conversation, I have come up with a challenge.

Samantha says: Michael, what is your middle name?
Some Guy says:
your mom
Samantha says:
srsly
Some Guy says:
srsly

...

Samantha says:
tell me your middle name first
Some Guy says:
guess
Samantha says:
don't know it
Some Guy says:
if you guess right, I'll tell you
Some Guy says:
no
Some Guy says:
that's wrong
Samantha says:
give me a clue
Forest says:
be back in like 30 mins.
Samantha says:
kk
Samantha says:
clue
Some Guy says:
ok

If we assign a value to each letter of the alphabet, so that A = 1, B = 2, C = 3 ... Z = 26, and add up all the letter values in a word, we can get a value for a word.

For example, MICHAEL = 13 + 9 + 3 + 8 + 5 + 12 = 50 and KALSI = 11 + 1 + 12 + 19 + 9 = 52.

The sum of all the letter values in my middle name is 58.

[Ishtari]

Way not to add the value of A in MICHAEL.

[Hauskaz]

I did make a program to solve this, but the problem was sorting out possible names out of the giant list of incoherency it generated.

[Cheesemaster V]

I think I disposed of this competition when I later realized my hint still left you with an absurd number of combinations (# of compositions of 58 with no parts larger than 26 = 144,115,188,075,855,872 - some number much smaller than that = some still ridiculously high number of combinations).

[Ishtari]

It's too bad the WatIAM White Pages aren't part of Waterloo's Open Data API.

But that would clearly be cheating anyway.

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

well this thread has been silked because we all know his name is Mandeep and it adds up to 58.

I just remember seeing a question with Kalsi's name on it on one of the CS mailing lists and laughing for 5 minutes because his middle name was Mandeep.