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

News

29.08.2025

Database Expansion: Brazilian Portuguese Names

We’ve expanded our database to include a comprehensive set of Brazilian Portuguese names. This...


21.08.2025

Secondary Domain Added: api.name-api.com for Enhanced Redundancy

To further strengthen NameAPI’s reliability and provide uninterrupted service access, we are happy...


28.07.2025

Version 10.8.0 Released

Release of Optimaize PII Platform, version 10.8.0.


05.06.2025

Dictionary Update: Korean Names Added

We’ve expanded our database with an extensive set of Korean names. This update brings in 10,800...


05.05.2025

Dictionary Update: Greek Names Added

With over 25.500 Greek terms stored, our database now includes over 9,000 given names and 16,200...


Soap Web Services

 

This is the API Guide for the SOAP web services which are in maintenance-mode only. We recommend new users to use REST and existing users to switch to REST.

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