Parses names using English conventions for persons names. Intended to be extendable, the library can be extended just by implement IFullNamePattern interface and assign a score to the returned result.

For the sake of performance, the assembly and types implementing IFullNamePattern must be loaded before the first attempt to use the NameParser.

If you have a person name that is not parsed correctly, please post a message on https://gitter.im/binaryfog/NameParser. I'll see what I can do.

Usage:

string fullName = "Mr. Jack Johnson"; 
FullNameParser target = new FullNameParser(fullName); 
target.Parse();
string firstName = target.FirstName;
string middleName = target.MiddleName;
string lastName = target.LastName;
string title = target.Title;
string nickName = target.NickName;
string suffix = target.Suffix;
string displayName = target.DisplayName;

Alternative usage:

string fullName = "Mr. Jack Johnson"; 
FullNameParser target = FullNameParser.Parse(fullName);
string firstName = target.FirstName;
string middleName = target.MiddleName;
string lastName = target.LastName;
string title = target.Title;
string nickName = target.NickName;
string suffix = target.Suffix;
string displayName = target.DisplayName;

Jun. 17, 2017: Started a new related project Nameparser.Dataset on github as a repository for names and parsed names. Feel free to add there names and parsed names.

Nov. 13 2015: More cases are now handled. These are the cases:

• SR. John Henry William dela Vega, Jr Esq.
• MANUEL ESQUIPULAS SOHOM
• Maria Delores Esquivel-Moreno
• PHILIP DEHART ESQ
• DEHART, PHILIP
• john 'jack' kennedy
• john(jack) f kennedy
• kennedy, john(jack) f
• Mr.Jack Johnson, ESQ"
• Jose Miguel De La Vega

Jan. 8 2016: 100% code coverage. More test cases. These are the cases:

• Empty string and white space cases.
• Mr. Jack Francis Van Der Waal Sr.
• Mr. Jack Francis Marion Van Der Waal Sr.