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tlshaheen/human-name-parser
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Takes human names of arbitrary complexity and various wacky formats and parses them out.

0.3(10y ago)01.9kPHPPHP ^5.3.3 || ^7.0

Since May 11Pushed 10y ago4 watchersCompare

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Originally forked from
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[](#originally-forked-from)

Name: HumanNameParse.php Version: 0.2 Date: 6 Sept. 2010 Author: Jason Priem  Website:  License:

To Install
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[](#to-install)

Add `"tlshaheen/human-name-parser": "0.2"` to your composer.json file and run `composer update`.

Description
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[](#description)

Takes human names of arbitrary complexity and various wacky formats like:

- J. Walter Weatherman
- de la Cruz, Ana M.
- James C. ('Jimmy') O'Dell, Jr.

and parses out the:

- leading initial (Like "J." in "J. Walter Weatherman")
- first name (or first initial in a name like 'R. Crumb')
- nicknames (like "Jimmy" in "James C. ('Jimmy') O'Dell, Jr.")
- middle names
- last name (including compound ones like "van der Sar' and "Ortega y Gasset"), and
- suffix (like 'Jr.', 'III')

###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 60% 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

2

Last Release

3654d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e7a52fd5d2ca534e688abb070f14ee1d83051cc0582d98e1fd82ba95c203dfe8?d=identicon)[tlshaheen](/maintainers/tlshaheen)

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Top Contributors

[![tlshaheen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/385724?v=4)](https://github.com/tlshaheen "tlshaheen (6 commits)")[![jasonpriem](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/216933?v=4)](https://github.com/jasonpriem "jasonpriem (4 commits)")

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