Facial Recognition (!) and blank

@Hilco, the erroneous names should be found in the Tags panel under People Tags.  Make sure that the erroneous names have not been applied to any photos (by checking the box next to the name).  You can then right-click on the name and Delete it.

And it is possible to have duplicate names spelled exactly alike.  Usually, there is a warning message when this happens, but it is easy to miss it.

I have an issue that might well be related that of the topic starter. Please see screenshot below.

There are 4 names listed in the dropdown:

- Two are OK, those are the 'Aaron' and 'Aad' that I have purposely named and have a correct Profile Picture.

- The other two are faulty, the ones with the "head and torso" icon. When I was naming, I apparently made a typo with 'AAd'. The faulty 'Aaron' looks like its spelled the same as the correct 'Aaron' (maybe there is a space at the end though). There used to be some photos of Aaron and Aad in these faulty stacks, and I removed them to the correct stacks. However, the faulty names are still 'available', but not as a stack. I can't find a way to delete these, and of couse I am not going to reset all face recognition just because of this.

I checked Google, Adobe Support and this forum, but alas.

How can I remove the empty, faulty people names?

PS: the boy in the picture is actually neither Aaron or Aad, but that's besides the point 🙂

It's not exactly clear to me what you are doing.  Some screenshots would be helpful.  I may be wrong but I think you may have a misconception about how FR works in Elements.  For each face that has been analyzed, you need to confirm that the face belongs to a named person.  The fact that you are seeing the blue exclamation points suggests to me that you are looking in the Named People tab.  While it is possible to confirm suggested names in that tab, it is better to name people from the UnNamed People tab. 

How many photos do you have in your catalog?  The number appearing in the lower left of the status bar will give a good approximation.  How many files do you have in the following folder:  C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\[YOUR CATALOG NAME]\FaceAnalysis\json\.  If face recognition has been completed, the numbers should match.

Please give us a screenshot of the Named People and UnNamed People tabs.  How many UnNamed People stacks do you have?  The number will appear in the lower left corner of the status bar.  How many small stacks do you have?  Uncheck the box to Hide small stacks which appears at the top of the UnNamed People tab.

I shall await further response from you before giving some hopefully more productive suggestions.

Have you owned a prior version of Elements and did you convert a prior catalog to 2020?

How have you been adding the names to the files?  Have you done it from stacks found in the UnNamed People room?  Or have you simply dragged the People name tags to photos in the grid (or vice versa)?  Your answers may provide some clues as to why you are seeing the generic icons in your People stacks.