email-to-name

Email to Name

A Node.js and web browser compatible script that takes an email address and tries to generate a name.

Company Names

Privacy conscious individuals often use the name of website as the email identifier. If Jane Smith has her own domain name with an email server, she might sign up as [e-mail]. That way if "Suspicious Website" ends up selling her email address on to a third party, if they send this exact email address spam, it's possible to see who leaked her email address.

It's also therefore possible to invert this method and detect the personal domain if the email identifier matches your company/website name.

No Company Names

• emailToName.process('[e-mail]')
  • Output: Acloudguru

With Company Names

• emailToName.process('[e-mail]', { companyNames: ['acg', 'acloudguru'] })
  • Output: Janesmith

Common Email Identifiers

Users who operate a personal email domain sometimes use prefixes like contact, hello, me and others. This script also tries to invert those.

Parameters

Value	Default	Example (Input)	Example (On)	Example (Off)
removePlusWords	true	[e-mail]	Tait Brown	Tait Brown+test
removeNumbers	true	[e-mail]	Tait	Tait123
titleCase	true	[e-mail]	Tait Brown	tait brown
caseMc	true	[e-mail]	John McKim	John Mckim
caseLetterApostrophe	true	flannery.o'[e-mail]	Flannery O'Connor	Flannery O'connor
uppercaseGenerationalNumbers	true	[e-mail]	Tait Brown III	Tait Brown Iii
commaPrependGenerationalPhrase	true	[e-mail]	Tait Brown, Jr.	Tait Brown Jr
appendPeriodToTitlePrefix	true	[e-mail]	Prof. Tait Brown	Prof Tait Brown
lowercaseFamilyParticle	true	[e-mail]	Dutch van der Linde	Dutch Van Der Linde

Default Values

Common Personal Identifiers

Attempt to use the domain name as the personal identifier when these common email identifiers are used 'hello', 'me', 'email', 'contact'

Generational Suffixes

Prepend a comma and append a period for the following, when at the end of a string and preceded by a space 'jr', 'jnr', 'sr', 'snr'

Generational Numbers

Uppercase these whe at the end of a string and preceded by a space 'ii', 'iii', 'iv'

Titles

Append a period when the following occur at the beginning of a string and are followed by a space 'mr', 'mrs', 'ms', 'dr', 'prof'

Development

Run tests. Requires yarn.

yarn test

Changelog

• 2.0.0 - Building with esbuild with browser targets chrome58,firefox57,safari11,edge16
• 1.1.0 - Borrowed heavily from namecase libraries
  • ADDED: Various lowercase conjunctions "son/daughter of" as per namecase
• 1.0.0 Breaking Change: Relocated company names and common personal identifiers to params
• 0.2.0 Bugfix: Couldn't use in browser due to module check
• 0.1.0 added generational handling (Jr, Sr, III etc) as well as titles (Mr, Mrs, Dr, Prof)
• 0.0.0 init commit