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

News

23.11.2023

Slovene names: Unraveling a Fascinating Blend of Cultures

Did you know that Slovenian’s great variety of names reflects the country’s fascinating blend of...


03.11.2023

Expanding Horizons: Introducing Fresh Additions to Our Name Database!

Collaborating diligently with natives worldwide, our research team has successfully integrated new...


18.10.2023

Introducing the Latest Version: Java Client Library 6.0.0

The new and noteworthy feature of the Java™ Client Library 6.0.0 is its migration to Java 17.


03.10.2023

Discover Our Name Parser Service

Efficiently and accurately analyze personal names, regardless of cultural or linguistic variations,...


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...


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.