Java Regex to Validate Full Name allow only Spaces and Letters

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What about:

  • Peter Müller
  • François Hollande
  • Patrick O’Brian
  • Silvana Koch-Mehrin

Validating names is a difficult issue, because valid names are not only consisting of the letters A-Z.

At least you should use the Unicode property for letters and add more special characters. A first approach could be e.g.:

String regx = "^[\\p{L} .'-]+$";

\\p{L} is a Unicode Character Property that matches any kind of letter from any language

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