If someone has multiple names and a word common to their multiple names is in my search query, they're going to probably be #1 in my search results even though it doesn't make sense for them to be so high. Maybe I searched for John Henry and even though there's an exact match, John Bob comes up #1 because he also has the name John Billy... so John matched twice. I don't want this to happen. How do I get Hibernate Search (or lucene) to either search the names individually or disregard how often a word occurs in a name?

It all depends how exactly you model (entities) look like and which query you are using. For example, I would assume that not all names are stored in the same string property and maybe first and last names are also stored separately. Have you considered index or search time boosting? And is this actually a real problem you are having? Post your entity and search code to get some more concrete feedback.

--Hardy