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First Name

Given name (first name). Locale-specific due to cultural naming conventions.

First Name

identity.person.first_name

Given name (first name). Locale-specific due to cultural naming conventions.

Domain
identity
Category
person
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Locale-specific
Locales
EN, EN_AU, EN_GB, EN_CA, EN_US, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, RU, JA, ZH, KO, AR

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "John"
→ identity.person.first_name

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('John');
-- → 'identity.person.first_name'
Cast expression
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'identity.person.first_name';

JSON Schema

finetype schema identity.person.first_name
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/identity.person.first_name",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Given name (first name). Locale-specific due to cultural naming conventions.",
  "examples": [
    "John",
    "María",
    "Jacques",
    "太郎",
    "محمد"
  ],
  "maxLength": 100,
  "minLength": 1,
  "pattern": "^[\\p{L}\\s'\\-]+$",
  "title": "First Name",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-pii": true,
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

JohnMaríaJacques太郎محمد

Aliases

given_name

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