nameparser parses human names into seven fields — title, given, middle, family, suffix, nickname, maiden. Results are immutable, configuration is composable, and locale packs are opt-in.
📣 nameparser 2.0 is out. Existing HumanName code keeps working through 2.x, and most 1.x code needs no changes. The migration guide has the field-by-field map. Please open an issue for anything that parses wrong.
2.1 adds East Asian name support. Chinese, Japanese and Korean names written in their own scripts are read family-first, unspaced Korean names are split against the census surname list, and CJK honorifics are recognized. See East Asian names.
Installation
pip install nameparser
Requires Python 3.11+.
Quick Start Example
>>> from nameparser import parse
>>> name = parse("Dr. Juan Q. Xavier de la Vega III (Doc Vega)")
>>> name
<ParsedName: [
title: 'Dr.'
given: 'Juan'
middle: 'Q. Xavier'
family: 'de la Vega'
suffix: 'III'
nickname: 'Doc Vega'
]>
>>> name.family_base, name.family_particles
('Vega', 'de la')
>>> name.given_names, name.surnames
('Juan Q. Xavier', 'Q. Xavier de la Vega')
>>> name.render("{family}, {given}")
'de la Vega, Juan'
>>> parse("김민준").family # Korean: unspaced, split on the census list
'김'
>>> parse("高橋 みなみ").family # Japanese: kanji with kana, family first
'高橋'
>>> parse("김민준씨").suffix # an honorific written against the name
'씨'
>>> parse("г-н Иван Петров").title # Cyrillic title
'г-н'
>>> parse("محمد بن سلمان").family # Arabic: بن chains onto the family name
'بن سلمان'
>>> from nameparser import locales, parser_for
>>> chinese = parser_for(locales.ZH) # Han text does not say which language
>>> chinese.parse("毛泽东").family # so splitting it is opt-in
'毛'
>>> russian = parser_for(locales.RU)
>>> russian.parse("Сидоров Иван Петрович").family
'Сидоров'
>>> locales.available()
('ja', 'ru', 'tr_az', 'zh')Learn more
Using the parser — the full tour: input shapes, aggregates, rendering, comparison, ambiguities, tokens
Customizing the parser — vocabulary, behavior, and presentation
Locale packs — opt-in bundles for East Slavic patronymics, Turkic markers, and more
There’s also a CLI: python -m nameparser --json "Doe, John"
Coming from 1.x
HumanName and CONSTANTS keep working in 2.0 — same imports, same attributes, same mutation API. What 2.0 removes is the batch of deprecations 1.3 and 1.4 announced, so if your test suite runs clean on 1.4 under python -W error::DeprecationWarning, you are nearly done. Two things that check will not catch: four removals 1.4 never warned about (three raise on contact, the fourth only warns), and one that changes results silently — name == "John Smith" is now False. Migrating from HumanName covers both, and translates a v1 customization into the new API whenever that’s convenient for you.
See the release log for the full list of changes in the 2.0 series.
License
LGPL licensed. See LICENSE for details.
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