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derek73 / python-nameparser

A simple Python module for parsing human names into their individual components
http://nameparser.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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Add a feature to work with Hispanic and Portuguese names (latinos) #103

Open miguelgfierro opened 4 years ago

miguelgfierro commented 4 years ago

The library doesn't work for latino names, in Spanish and Portuguese we have 2 surnames, ie:

Spanish: Rafael Nadal Parera Portuguese: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (in this case Cristiano is the first name, Ronaldo de second name and the rest surnames)

Also, we can have several names, they are not called first and middle name, but fist, second, third names...

I guess it not an easy thing to implement, but there are around 700M people on that group :-)

derek73 commented 4 years ago

The current parser logic basically takes the first name it gets and sticks it in the first name list, then sticks all other names into the middle name list until it reaches the last name.

It seems feasible that the logic could be changed to switch from middle names to last names at some other point as it proceeds from beginning to end, but if there can be an arbitrary number of both middle and last names how would the parser know when to switch to last names?

derek73 commented 4 years ago

Also if middle names are not really a separate concept like in English, maybe the surnames attribute is what you want:

https://nameparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules.html#nameparser.parser.HumanName.surnames

It's basically all names except the first name or any titles or suffixes, so middle and last concated together.

derek73 commented 4 years ago

In the "Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro" example, what would be a useful way to separate out the name parts in Portuguese? You referred to "second" and "surname". I know in Portuguese people can have like 10 names, but I don't know what's a useful way to group them. If more names were added would you want "third" name and then "surname" for the just final name part? Would a numerical index be useful?

Also might want to look at #72 for some related conversation. I think that's when I added the surnames attribute.

miguelgfierro commented 4 years ago

I know in Portuguese people can have like 10 names, but I don't know what's a useful way to group them.

yes, same in Spanish. Maybe a good way would be to have a field called names (similar to surnames) that would include all the names, in the case of "Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro" it would be "Cristiano Ronaldo". In Spanish people can also have multiple names, an example:

"Dr. Miguel Ángel González-Fierro Palacios":

Kmfernan5 commented 1 year ago

Is this ready to use