NameAPI is a web API
to handle people's names
in your software.

News

19.05.2023

Software Version 10.0.2 Deployed

Bug-fix version that reverts an unintentional change in the RiskDetector service.


19.05.2023

New Java Client Library 5.4.2

The Java™ client library provides access to the NameAPI Web Services from Java compatible...


18.05.2023

Somali Names Imported

Somalia, also known as the "Nation of Poets", is located at the easternmost edge of the African...


17.05.2023

Software Version 10.0.1 Deployed

Bug-fix version that reverts an unintentional change in the NameParser service.


12.05.2023

Software Version 10.0.0 Deployed

We have recently updated the NameAPI software to run with Java 17. This update includes improved...


Name Parser

Name parsing is the process of splitting a person's name into its individual components, such as first name, middle name, last name, suffix, salutation, and title.

  Examples by culture:
Examples:

  Examples by culture:
Examples:


  Examples by culture:
Examples:

Developer: see the technical specification of the REST service.

Identifying the culture associated with a personal name is the key for understanding its individual components and splitting them accurately.

  • Prof Dr Mary-Louise D. Miller Jr => English
  • Abd al-Masih Al-Azawi => Arabic
  • Dong Hua Lee => Chinese

Applications

  • Extracting first names and last names from a full name string.
  • Identifying the gender of a person.
  • Culture profiling.
  • Differentiating between natural and legal people (businesses).
  • Identifying individual people within a name string.

Although colonization and globalization have caused naming systems to be more uniform, there are still plenty of cultural peculiarities that make this process challenging.

Parsing the person's name is the first step for additional processing, such as genderizing.