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Last Name

Type Registry

Last Name

identity.person.last_name

Family name (surname). Locale-specific due to surname conventions which vary by culture (e.g., patronymic names in Scandinavian and Russian cultures).

Domain identity›person
Casts to VARCHAR
Scope Locale-specific
Locales EN, EN_AU, EN_GB, EN_CA, EN_US, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, RU, JA, ZH, KO, AR

Try it

CLI 
$ finetype infer -i "Smith"
→ identity.person.last_name

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('Smith');
-- → 'identity.person.last_name'
Cast expression 
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline 
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'identity.person.last_name';

JSON Schema

finetype schema identity.person.last_name 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/identity.person.last_name",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Family name (surname). Locale-specific due to surname conventions which vary by culture (e.g., patronymic names in Scandinavian and Russian cultures).",
  "examples": [
    "Smith",
    "García",
    "Dubois",
    "田中",
    "علي"
  ],
  "maxLength": 100,
  "minLength": 1,
  "pattern": "^[\\p{L}\\s'\\-]+$",
  "title": "Last Name",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

SmithGarcíaDubois田中علي

Also known as

surnamefamily_name

Types in identity