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Last Name

Family name (surname). Locale-specific due to surname conventions which vary by culture (e.g., patronymic names in Scandinavian and Russian cultures).

Last Name

identity.person.last_name

Family name (surname). Locale-specific due to surname conventions which vary by culture (e.g., patronymic names in Scandinavian and Russian cultures).

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 "Smith"
→ identity.person.last_name

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('Smith');
-- → 'identity.person.last_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.last_name';

JSON Schema

finetype schema identity.person.last_name
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/identity.person.last_name",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Family name (surname). Locale-specific due to surname conventions which vary by culture (e.g., patronymic names in Scandinavian and Russian cultures).",
  "examples": [
    "Smith",
    "García",
    "Dubois",
    "田中",
    "علي"
  ],
  "maxLength": 100,
  "minLength": 1,
  "pattern": "^[\\p{L}\\s'\\-]+$",
  "title": "Last Name",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-pii": true,
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

SmithGarcíaDubois田中علي

Aliases

surnamefamily_name

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