I'd turn this:
where firstname LIKE '[!-/:-ÿ]%'
into:
where firstname LIKE '[^0-9]%'
The carat (up-arrow) means "excluding" in there. It's more clear that the exact thing you want to do is exclude 0-9, rather than an inclusive list of everything else.
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