There are a few add-ins we have used in our company to accomplish this. I ended up creating a way to actually specify the formats for the name on our different imports for different clients. There is a company that has a tool that in my experience is well worth the price and is really incredible when tackling this subject. It's at: http://www.softwarecompany.com/ and works great. The most efficient way to do this w/out using any statistical approach is to split the string by commas or spaces then: 1. strip titles and prefixes out 2. strip suffixes out 3, parse name in the order of ( 2 names = F & L, 3 names = F M L or L M F) depending on order of string().
