About Us
About Optimaize GmbH (ltd)
Optimaize, with its headquarters in Wangen-Zürich (Switzerland) and branch office in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), manages the global leading name database and develops software around persons' names. Optimaize operates a public portal on www.namepedia.org, and commercial offerings on www.nameapi.org. NameAPI serves international customers including software companies, financial institutions, direct marketers, and media companies.
Name Data
All parts of personal names are collected, including given names and surnames from all languages and cultures. These are linked with additional information, including gender, language and frequency. Original spellings in non-Latin scripts (including transcriptions and transliterations) are also recorded.
The used sources are phone books, national government publications, websites on the subject, and local freelancers. NamePedia spiders online news sources from 55 countries and extracts named entities focusing on people's names.
Software
On the basis of the name data, Optimaize develops the following software modules:
Name Genderizer: | Identifies the gender of a person's name |
Name Parser: | Identifies and orders the parts of names |
Email Name Parser: | Extracts names out of email addresses |
Name Matcher: | Compares names and computes similarity (duplicates) |
Name Extractor: | Extracts names out of plain text |
Name Profiler: | Enhances name records with additional attributes |
Name Validator: | Checks correctness (spell-checking, gender, name order) |
Fake Name Detector: | Identifies potentially invalid records |
Name Formatter: | Formats names in correct upper/lower case |
Name Variant Generator: | Suggests variants and variant spellings for names |
Services
Optimaize offers programming services for customizing and extending its software to meet the unique needs of clients.