Name: HumanNameParser

Date: 12-Nov-2017

Author: James M. Curran [email protected] (based on the work of Jason Priem [email protected], et al)

License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Blog entry: https://honestillusion.com/2017/11/12/human-name-parser

Description

Port of the original PHP HumanNameParse into C#/.NET (.NET Standard v1.3) (Original: https://github.com/jasonpriem/HumanNameParser.php )

Takes human names of arbitrary complexity and various wacky formats like:

J. Walter Weatherman
de la Cruz, Ana M.
James C. ('Jimmy') O'Dell, Jr.

and parses out the:

leading initial (Like "J." in "J. Walter Weatherman")
first name (or first initial in a name like 'R. Crumb')
nicknames (like "Jimmy" in "James C. ('Jimmy') O'Dell, Jr.")
middle names
last name (including compound ones like "van der Sar' and "Ortega y Gasset"), and
suffix (like 'Jr.', 'III')

UPDATE:

13-Jul-2023
- Switched target famework from netstandard1.6 to netstandard2.0
25-Apr-2022
- Created NuGet package. Since there was already a packet called "HumanNameParser", this is "NovelTheory.HumanNameParser", with the namespace changed to match.