Another-name-parser NPM

another-name-parser

Here's yet another name parsing node.js library. It'll take a personal name and returns a prefix (title), first (or given name), middle (or initial), last (or family name), and suffix. It's designed for US English but could be useful elsewhere. It's inspired by a SQL script a colleague pulled together long ago combined with inspiration from a few other libraries.

Installation

Via npm

$ npm install another-name-parser

Usage

const parser = require('another-name-parser');

const name = parser('Commissioner James "Jim" W. Gordon, Sr.');
// → { prefix: 'Commissioner',
//     first: 'James',
//     middle: 'W.',
//     last: 'Gordon',
//     suffix: 'Sr.',
//     original: 'Commissioner James "Jim" W. Gordon, Sr.' }

Features

Handles many common prefixes/titles
Retains . that appear in the original name (Dr. → Dr., PhD → PhD)
Recognizes common compound first names (Mary Jo, Juan Carlos, etc.)
Recognizes common compound last name prefixes (St., Mac, Bin, etc.)
Recognizes Last Name, First Name order
Ignores quoted or parenthesized nicknames (Catherine "Cathy" Smith → Catherine Smith, James (Jim) Von Trapp → James Von Trapp)