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

News

10.03.2023

Large Dictionary of Given Names

The NameAPI database of names counts a total of around 220.000 female, 285.000 male and 70.000...


16.02.2023

German Names Imported

German is a West Germanic language and it is the official language of many countries, including...


10.02.2023

More Research, Larger Name Database

The NameAPI database of manually reviewed names counts more than 590.000 given names from more than...


02.02.2023

Russian Names Imported

Russian is the most widely spoken Slavic language in the world, using the Cyrillic script.


26.01.2023

Irish Names Imported

Irish is a Gaelic language, part of the Celtic language family and it is one of the official...


Name Parser

Name parsing is the process of splitting a name string into its components.

  Examples by culture:
Examples:

  Examples by culture:
Examples:


  Examples by culture:
Examples:

 

Developer: see the technical specification of the REST service.

 

Identifying the culture is key to understanding the terms. 

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

Only after the culture has been identified, the name parts can be understood and split correctly.

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

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.