split-human-name

Split a person's name into first name and last name fields

Features

• Splits a name into exactly two fields { firstName, lastName }
• Fixes UPPERCASE, lowercase, iNVERSE CASE, and otherwise FUnkY cAse
• Handles couples ("John and Jane Doe")
• Gracefully degrades to put the entire string in firstName if there are multiple last names

Based on the awesome humanparser and namecase packages

Online demo: http://compwright.com/demos/split-human-name

Requirements

As of v4, this is an ESM-only package with named imports.

• Node.js 24+

Installation

$ npm install --save split-human-name

Usage Examples

import { splitName } from 'split-human-name';
const { firstName, lastName } = splitName('John and Jane Doe');
assert.strictEquals(firstName, 'John and Jane');
assert.strictEquals(lastName, 'Doe');

License

MIT