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rodrom/onomastica
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Library for normalization of personal names

v0.2.1(6mo ago)05MITPHPPHP >=8.3CI passing

Since Oct 23Pushed 6mo agoCompare

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Onomastica: Spanish / Multilingual Name Normalizer
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[](#onomastica-spanish--multilingual-name-normalizer)

> **Lightweight, framework/agnostic PHP Library to normalize personal names** following Spanish, Catalan, French and other languages conventions (apostrophes, connectors like `de`, `d’`, `del`, `y`, `i`, etc.). Designed to be suitable for use in any PHP project.

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Features
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[](#features)

- Trim and collapse whitespace.
- Correct casing (taking into account multibyte characters.)
- Handle language-specific particles and connectors (`de`, `d’`, `del`, `y`, `von`, etc.)
- Normalize different apostrophe characters and fix spacing around them.

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Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Require via Composer:

```
composer require rodrom/onomastica
```

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Quick Usage
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[](#quick-usage)

```
use Rodrom\Onomastica\NameNormalizer;

echo NameNormalizer::normalize('   Ignacio   DE   loYOla ');    // "Ignacio de Loyola"
echo NameNormalizer::normalize('IÑIGO López DE OÑAZ Y Loyola'); // "Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola"
echo NameNormalizer::normalize('María DE LAS Mercedes GARCÍA Y García');  // "José Antonio García y García"
echo NameNormalizer::normalize("JAUME D'ARAGó-URGELL I MONTFERRAT"); // "Jaume d’Aragó-Urgell i Montferrat"
```

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Changelog
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[](#changelog)

[Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)

License
-------

[](#license)

[MIT License](LICENSE)

Copyright © 2025 rodrom

###  Health Score

31

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LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance66

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity42

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

207d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/91325d2ef89ec7d40ac882ddef4a3189161519523727012d13b93ba3fcd11f42?d=identicon)[rodrom](/maintainers/rodrom)

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Top Contributors

[![rodrom](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17688194?v=4)](https://github.com/rodrom "rodrom (3 commits)")

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Tags

personal namesnombres propiosspanish namesnombres españolesonomásticarodrom

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