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ParseName

Cleanse a given name and identify gender

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To connect to this service you'll need to use one of these endpoints:

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Description

Tidy the supplied name, standardising casing and punctuation. The gender is derived from the name where possible, and standard formal and informal salutations are generated.

Credit Usage

Each request to this method consumes 1 NameCleansing credit.

Parameters

The following parameters can be supplied to this method

username

username

See the available authentication methods. If you are using username & password authentication, specify the username to authenticate as. If you are using API Key authentication and you are not using the JSON, Javascript or ADO APIs, use your API Key here with the prefix apikey-, e.g. apikey-ABCD-1234-EFGH-5678
password

password

If you are using username & password authentication, specify the password to use for authentication. Otherwise leave this blank.
name

name

The name to clean, supplied as a single string.

If you have a name in separate fields for title, first and last names, use the CleanName method instead.

Advanced Options

The following options can be specified as part of the option parameter. Each option is specified as a key/value pair. The list of available names is shown below, along with a description of the allowable values for that name.

Common Options
Name Description
ApplicationName

ApplicationName

Gives the name of the calling application - used to break down usage by application in the usage reports on the dashboard

Results

This method returns an object containing the following fields:

Status

Status

Indicates whether the method call was successful, or if some error occurred. If the Success field is true, the other results described below can be used to get the results of the method. If Success is false, some error occurred in calling the method, such as the authentication failed or the account is out of credits. The details of the error can be obtained from the ErrorMessage field, and any other results should be ignored
Name

Name

A tidied version of the supplied name, split into separate fields.

Gender

Gender

The gender that has been identified from the name. This can be one of the following values:

  • Male - the name is almost always male, e.g. "Mark"
  • Female - the name is almost always female, e.g. "Lucy"
  • Usually_Male - the name is usually male but can be female, e.g. "Alex"
  • Usually_Female - the name is usually female but can be male, e.g. "Carroll"
  • Unknown - we do not know the gender of this name, or it is ambiguous
FormalSalutation

FormalSalutation

The mode of address that should be used for this person in a formal situation.

InformalSalutation

InformalSalutation

The mode of address that should be used for this person in an informal situation.

Live Demo

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Name Value
Common Options

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