NameParserSharp

Based upon nameparser 1.1.3, NameParserSharp is a C# library that parses a human name into constituent fields Title, First, Middle, Last, Suffix, and Nickname from the HumanName class. For example:

var jfk = new HumanName("president john 'jack' f kennedy");

// person.Title == "president"
// person.First == "john"
// person.Middle == "f"
// person.Last == "kennedy"
// person.Nickname == "jack"

var jfk_alt = new HumanName("kennedy, president john (jack) f");

Assert.IsTrue(jfk == jfk_alt);

NameParserSharp implements the functionality of the Python project on which it is based in a C# idiomatic way.

The same extensive suite of tests as python-nameparser is used to confirm it meets the same specification.

Performance

There have been performance improvements to the library over the Python implementation to take advantage of some of the latest .NET features.

Method	Runtime	Mean	Ratio	Allocated	Alloc Ratio
NameParserSharp (Based on python-nameparser V0.3.6)	.NET 6.0	4.980 us	0.69	9.3 KB	1.78
python-nameparser V1.1.3 direct port	.NET 6.0	7.171 us	1.00	5.21 KB	1.00
Itzalive.NameParserSharp	.NET 6.0	2.834 us	0.39	4.83 KB	0.93
NameParserSharp (Based on python-nameparser V0.3.6)	.NET 8.0	4.446 us	0.61	9.01 KB	1.73
python-nameparser V1.1.3 direct port	.NET 8.0	4.404 us	0.61	5.21 KB	1.00
Itzalive.NameParserSharp	.NET 8.0	1.999 us	0.28	4.54 KB	0.87

Using NameParserSharp

NameParserSharp is available as a NuGet package: Install-Package Itzalive.NameParserSharp

Still to port

• Emoji character support
• Extracting initials