Frequency

Each extracted name is provided with a frequency number which is an indication of the accuracy of the name. The frequency is based upon how many times the first name and surname occur in a country.

First name

By using extremely fast servers and a database with 2.208.942 official first names received from governments and statistical agencies we can identify potential first names fast.

In the past extracting names from text was done using named-entity recognition (NER). Unfortunately that is not accurate enough (~90%). We extract names by examining every word in a text to check if the word could be a first name. This results in an extremely high precision and accuracy.

Last name

After we identified a possible first name we check the following words in a database with 6.119.869 surnames. This way we can identify and extract complete names with an extremely high precision and a high accuracy.

If we extracted the first name and surname we combine both country frequencies to an ultimate frequency that indicates the accuracy of the complete name. If the frequency is above a certain threshold we return the extracted name.

Country

Based upon the first name and surname our service can predict the country of origin of any given name. As you can see in the response object each name has a country code.

For each country we deliver comprehensive country information like language code, currency and demonym. This makes your development database rich and accurate.