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As Janus Bahs Jacquet mentions in a comment, specifically looking at names makes this much more difficult. Names come from a wide variety of languages, and are Anglicized to a wide variety of different extents. This also makes it extremely difficult to figure out their pronunciation in the first place: when you see a surname like "Beauchamp" or &...
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In order to have any hope of succeeding, you need to first limit the scope of the data. For example the name pronounced [ʃidʒɪnpʰɪŋ] is usually spelled Xi Jinping, and [ɛnvɹ̩ hodʒə] is spelled Enver Hoxha. You might decide that you want to rule out names that are not "English", but then you need a way of deciding if a name is "English". ...
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There's an Australian language Lardil that has both of the features the OP is asking for:
there's no phonemic glottal stop, in fact, there are no glottal consonants
each syllable starts with a consonant (there may be exceptions, but I don't think there are any in Lardil)
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