Regular expression for validating names and surnames?

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I sympathize with the need to constrain input in this situation, but I don’t believe it is possible – Unicode is vast, expanding, and so is the subset used in names throughout the world.

Unlike email, there’s no universally agreed-upon standard for the names people may use, or even which representations they may register as official with their respective governments. I suspect that any regex will eventually fail to pass a name considered valid by someone, somewhere in the world.

Of course, you do need to sanitize or escape input, to avoid the Little Bobby Tables problem. And there may be other constraints on which input you allow as well, such as the underlying systems used to store, render or manipulate names. As such, I recommend that you determine first the restrictions necessitated by the system your validation belongs to, and create a validation expression based on those alone. This may still cause inconvenience in some scenarios, but they should be rare.

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