Separate first and last name in Excel

Split titles, salutations, and suffixes

If you have a worksheet with differently formatted names in the same column, Split Names for Excel will quickly clean up the mess and put first, last, and middle names into individual columns. It perfectly recognizes various multi-part names, over 80 salutations, about 30 courtesy suffixes, and post-nominal letters.

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For Microsoft Excel 365, 2024 – 2016

With Split Names you will

  • Divide multi-part names Separate first and last names, isolate middle names as well.
  • Pull other words apart from names Choose to detach salutations, titles, and courtesy suffixes.

How to separate first and last name in Excel

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Their Ultimate Site is perfect for novice and advanced Excel users. Thanks to their Ultimate Suite, I can perform a number of data tasks at a click of the button! It's perfect for data cleaning. And, their staff is very prompt and responsive. Trust me, this is an add on and company that won't disappoint.

Lanita Warner,

Fantastic program

The Ablebits Data Merge Tables add- on is a fantastic program. It facilitates my projects for sure saving numerous hours of drudgery not to mention reducing the chance of error in manually importing data. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who needs to pull data from one Excel file to another. It's worth every penny! I love it.

Dr. Douglas Boyd Ph.D.,

KUDOS to you guys for solving a problem that our IT department doesn't understand

After our IT department thought they know how the sales department should function and destroyed some data files. With the help of Able Bits I was able to regenerate my database in just a few short clicks. This was AWESOME. KUDOS to you guys for solving a problem that even our IT department doesn't understand. As a leader in the sales department I need my data to grow sales.

Erik Peterson,

Ablebits suite has really helped me when I was in a crunch!

Having Ablebits suite has really helped me when I was in a crunch! It was intuitive and really saved me time on my job! Now that the crunch is over, I'm finding there are other capabilities in the suite that I was not really aware of initially, (I originally only needed the easy merge capability). And those other features will / are valuable time savers as well. Thanks for the product!

Nelda Fink,

I love the program, and I can't imagine using Excel without it!

Thank you for your commitment to Ultimate Suite. I love the program, and I can't imagine using Excel without it! Ultimate Suite saves me many hours of effort with the projects I manage within Excel. The program paid for itself the first day I used it. You and your team have created a really great set of tools for use within Microsoft Excel. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Robert Madsen,

It is like having an expert at my shoulder helping me…

I really feel that Ablebits has people like me in mind with your software development. It is like having an expert at my shoulder helping me work more effectively and efficiently. Now I have more time to goof off at work - none the wiser. Uh, that last statement is not really true - I will just have a lot less stress because things will go so much smoother.

Linda Shakespeare
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Frequently asked questions

What is Split Names and what do I need it for?

The add-in does exactly what its name suggests, i.e. separates names in Excel from one cell into several cells. What's more, it recognizes and splits salutations, titles, name suffixes, and post-nominal letters.

Can't I separate names in Excel by using some built-in feature?

Yes, you can use Excel's Text to Columns option. However, it can hardly be called a fast and intuitive process. You will have to specify every single delimiter used between the names, and carefully select the destination range not to overwrite your original data.

Split Names doesn't care about the delimiters and empty columns. It separates names and inserts as many new columns as necessary to accommodate the name parts, leaving the original names intact.

How to separate names in Excel with the Split Names add-in?

To split names in Excel, do the following:

  1. Select a column with names and click the Split Names button.
  2. Choose which parts of the names you want to pull apart.
  3. Click Split.

See a more detailed description here.

Will Split Names separate first and last names in Excel from titles and salutations?

Yes, the add-in recognizes and splits:

  • All kinds of multi-part names, including double surnames.
  • Over 80 salutations and courtesy titles, including all common social, professional, political, military, and ecclesiastical titles.
  • Over 30 suffixes and post-nominal letters, including the most common generation (Jr., Sr. etc.) and professional (such as MD, PHD, ESQ, etc.) suffixes.

System requirements

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  • Excel included in Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
  • Excel 2024
  • Excel 2021
  • Excel 2019
  • Excel 2016
  • Note! Office Insider is not supported
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  • Windows 11 on PCs and Copilot+ PCs
  • Windows 10
  • Note! Windows Insider is not supported

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Support for Excel 365, 2021 – 2016

All Excel versions 2021 – 2016 are supported, both 32- and 64-bit. Also, all desktop Excel versions included in Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

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During 2 years after the purchase you get all minor updates and major upgrades for free.

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