russiannames is a Python 3 library dedicated to parse Russian names, surnames and midnames, identify person gender by fullname and how name is written. It uses MongoDB as backend to speed-up name parsing.
Documentation is built automatically and can be found on https://russiannames.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
To install Python library use pip install russiannames via pip or python setup.py install
To use database you need MongoDB instance. Unpack db_data_bson.zip file from https://github.com/datacoon/russiannames/blob/master/data/bson/db_dump_bson.zip
and use mongorestore command to restore names database with 3 collections: names, surnames and midnames
Database of names used for identification
- 375449 surnames - collection: surnames
- 32134 first names - collection: names
- 48274 midnames - collection: midnames
Detailed database statistics by gender and collection
| collection | total | males | females | universal or unidentified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| names | 32134 | 19297 | 8278 | 1196 |
| midnames | 48274 | 30114 | 16143 | 0 |
| surnames | 375274 | 124662 | 111534 | 38827 |
Supports 12 formats of Russian full names writing style
| Format | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
| f | Ольга | only first name |
| s | Петров | only surname |
| Fs | О. Сидорова | first letter of first name and full surname |
| sF | Николаев С. | full surname and first letter of surname |
| sf | Абрамов Семен | full surname and full first name |
| fs | Соня Камиуллина | full first name and full surname |
| fm | Иван Петрович | full first name and full middlename |
| SFM | М.Д.М. | first letters of surname, first name, middlename |
| FMs | А.Н. Егорова | first letters of first and middle name and full furname |
| sFM | Николаенко С.П. | full surname and first letters of first and middle names |
| sfM | Петракова Зинаида М. | full surname, first name and first letter of middle name |
| sfm | Казаков Ринат Артурович | full name as surname, first name and middle name |
| fms | Светлана Архиповна Волкова | full name as first name, middle name and surname |
Supports names with following ethnics identification
9 ethnic types in names, surnames and middle names supported
| key | name (en) | name (rus) |
|---|---|---|
| arab | Arabic | Арабское |
| arm | Armenian | Армянское |
| geor | Georgian | Грузинское |
| germ | German | Немецкие |
| greek | Greek | Греческие |
| jew | Jew | Еврейские |
| polsk | Polish | Польские |
| slav | Slavic (Russian) | Славянские |
| tur | Turkic | Тюркские (тюркоязычные) |
- very rare names, surnames or middlenames could be not parsed
- ethnic identification is still on early stage
- preconfigured and preindexed MongoDb collections used
Parses names and returns: format, surname, first name, middle name, parsed (True/False) and gender
>>> from russiannames.parser import NamesParser
>>> parser = NamesParser()
>>> parser.parse('Нигматуллин Ринат Ахметович')
{'format': 'sfm', 'sn': 'Нигматуллин', 'fn': 'Ринат', 'mn': 'Ахметович', 'gender': 'm', 'text': 'Нигматуллин Ринат Ахметович', 'parsed': True}
>>> parser.parse('Петрова C.Я.')
{'format': 'sFM', 'sn': 'Петрова', 'fn_s': 'C', 'mn_s': 'Я', 'gender': 'f', 'text': 'Петрова C.Я.', 'parsed': True}
Gender field could have one of following values:
- m: Male
- f: Female
- u: Unknown / unidentified
- -: Impossible to identify
Parses surname, first name and middle name and tries to identify person ethic affiliation of the person
>>> from russiannames.parser import NamesParser
>>> parser = NamesParser()
>>> parser.classify('Нигматуллин', 'Ринат', 'Ахметович')
{'ethnics': ['tur'], 'gender': 'm'}
>>> parser.classify('Алексеева', 'Ольга', 'Ивановна')
{'ethnics': ['slav'], 'gender': 'f'}
- Russian
- pymongo
- click
- Slavic names https://github.com/wb-08/SlavicNames - same data shipped as SQLite database
