The bug is present in Ubuntu 16.04; apt version 1.2.10 (amd64)

$ apt-cache search --names-only ab|grep -cv ab
100

Furthermore, the command does not restrict to the package names even if the 
option suggests it does.
The following script should print 0:

$ apt-cache search --names-only ab|cut -d' ' -f1|grep -cv ab
107

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  apt-cache search --names-only  gives many false positives

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