Parse names into useful components

Your name contains a lot of information. It tells if you're male or female and reveals your nationality. Our service turns unstructured names into actionable information.

Name parsing

Our name parsing software splits a name or email address into the first and last name. We can tell if a persons name is male or female and what the possible nationality is.

Name generator

Generate names including email addresses for your development database. Integrate our name generator API or use our Web App to export to CSV or SQL or plain text.

Name extraction

Our name extraction software extracts all the complete names from unstructured text. We extract complete name lists with an extremely high accuracy at a very high speed.

246ms
Response time
27.840
API calls in the past 24 hours
99.98%*
Uptime
* Based upon the availability for the past month monitored by Pingdom.

Use our web app or integrate our API into your platform

All our solutions are available as Web App for occasional projects and as API. Check out our API documentation and code examples for PHP, Python, Javascript and C#.

What is name parsing?

Name parsing is splitting a complete name into the first name and last name. Additionally, features can be returned like the gender and possible nationality of the name.

How can I validate a name?

A name can be validated by parsing the complete name and let the name parser service check if a name exists, is not made up or misspelled.

How can you tell if a name is male or female?

Name parser uses a name list with 1.467.445 authenticated gender tagged names collected from governments and statistical agencies to determine if a name is male or female.

Where can I download a name list?

On the website Name Census you can download 1.467.445 validated first names from 141 countries including the gender and popularity.