Rasa only recognizing names from lookuptable

you could try this:

that’s why we developed that solution, to deal with the first name/last name problem]. There are other ways of doing it in a form of course. Like setting the requested slot.from_text, and then validating the expected lastname against a list of last names that would include the last names that are also first names, e.g. George and Allen as well as Szymanski and Robertson