Regular expression for first and last name

Question

For website validation purposes, I need first name and last name validation.

For the first name, it should only contain letters, can be several words with spaces, an

Answer 1

I'm working on the app that validates International Passports (ICAO). We support only english characters. While most foreign national characters can be represented by a character in the Latin alphabet e.g. è by e, there are several national characters that require an extra letter to represent them such as the German umlaut which requires an ‘e’ to be added to the letter e.g. ä by ae.

This is the JavaScript Regex for the first and last names we use:

/^[a-zA-Z '.-]*$/

The max number of characters on the international passport is up to 31. We use maxlength="31" to better word error messages instead of including it in the regex.

Here is a snippet from our code in AngularJS 1.6 with form and error handling:

class PassportController {
  constructor() {
    this.details = {};
    // English letters, spaces and the following symbols ' - . are allowed
    // Max length determined by ng-maxlength for better error messaging
    this.nameRegex = /^[a-zA-Z '.-]*$/;
  }
}

angular.module('akyc', ['ngMessages'])
  .controller('PassportController', PassportController);

 
.has-error p[ng-message] {
  color: #bc111e;
}

.tip {
  color: #535f67;
}

  


    

        Surname
        
Exactly as it appears on your passport
        

          
Please enter your last name
          
This field can be at most 31 characters long
          
Only English letters, spaces and the following symbols ' - . are allowed
        
        
        
      

      Test