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

News

15.08.2023

Bulgarian Names: Stories of Tradition and Identity

Did you know that within the Bulgarian culture, name days often hold greater significance and are...


27.07.2023

Extended Credit Validity Period

We are excited to announce a significant update to our credit system at NameAPI!


07.07.2023

Kazakh Names: Reflections of Identity and Belonging

Did you know that certain regions in Kazakhstan have unique naming traditions and preferences?


22.06.2023

Ethiopian Names Imported: Unveiling Rich Heritage

Did you know that Ethiopia boasts a diverse linguistic landscape with over 80 languages spoken...


08.06.2023

Cultural Fusion of Cameroonian Names

Cameroon is a multilingual country in Central Africa, with over 200 different languages spoken.


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.