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

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

var 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)

Tests

Dependencies: grunt-cli

npm install -g grunt-cli
npm test

TODO

• Handle multiple names, e.g, Jim & Mark Anderson
• Handle likely company names (maybe)

Acknowledgements

• My former colleague and whomever he got his original script from
• Some of the test cases and compound lastname prefixes came from the humanname module

License

MIT License

Author

Matt Klaber