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...


Email Name Parser

The Email Name Parser extracts names out of email addresses.

  Examples by culture:
Examples:

 

Developer: see the technical specification of the REST service.

 

Besides extracting people's names, the service also identifies typocal functional email addresses such as info@, webmaster@ etc.

While private freemail addresses are full of nick names and fantasy words, almost all business email addresses contain the owner's name.

Applications:

Address your newsletter recipients personally, even if they have never entered their name.

Automatically pre-fill the name form fields of a person after entering the email address.