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

News

05.01.2026

2025 Around the World

2025 marked another remarkable year for Optimaize, characterized by significant progress in our...


15.12.2025

Detecting What Isn’t a Name: Salutations in International Data

Salutations often appear in name fields, even though they are not part of the actual name....


25.11.2025

Dictionary Update: Danish Names

NameAPI has expanded its Nordic coverage with 2,600 given names and 8,600 family names, capturing...


05.11.2025

Verification of Payee (VoP) with NameMatcher

NameAPI is introducing Verification of Payee (VoP) powered by NameMatcher, enabling fast, accurate...


30.10.2025

Software Version 11.0.0 Deployed

Release of Optimaize PII Platform with Java 21.


Rest Web Services

 

This is the API Guide for the REST web services which are actively developed and improved. SOAP services are in maintenance-mode only.

Latest Version: v5.3

Base pathhttps://api.nameapi.org/rest/v5.3

Behind the scenes our client libraries are using REST (previous versions used SOAP).For more details see: downloads