SPLIT NAMES in Excel | Separate First, Middle and Last Name

In this video, learn how to use different methods to Split names in Excel (i.e., separate first, middle and last name in Excel).
There are different ways you can manipulate text data in Excel. And one of the common things people do in Excel is to manage the names datasets.
Here are the methods covered in this video to split names into first and last names:
-- Text to Columns
-- Find and Replace
-- Flash Fill
-- Formulas
All these methods work great and are quick and easy.
With the first three methods, the result you get is static. This means that if your names data changes, then the resulting data wouldn't change.
The last method in this video shows how to split names using formulas. With formulas, you get a result that is dynamic. This means that if you change the original dataset, the resulting data automatically updates.
Text to Columns method uses a delimiter to separate the first and last name. The delimited could be a space character or any other delimiter - such as a comma.
Find and Replace method uses wildcard characters to find and replace part of the name. For example, if you want to remove the last name and only keep the first name, you can do that with Find and Replace.
Flash Fill is one of the easiest methods to split names in Excel. All you have to do si type in a few cells and it automatically identifies a pattern and gives you the same result for all the cells. Note that Flash Fill is available only in Excel 2013 and later versions.
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This is soooo easy and simple. Thank you immensely. It was just what I was looking for!

[@keneeyisi4699]

Straight to the point and useful! Thanks

[@ldmlhome]

OMG!!! I had NO IDEA about the wild card use in Find and Replace! This is AWESOME! You ROCK sir!

[@rtewari12071963]

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[@glynissmith1641]

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The Best Video on Split Names. Thanks you Sir.

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was working and needed a quick solution. Very good explanation.

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[@trumpexcel]

Thanks Gaurav... Glad you liked the video :)

[@binalchacko2875]

Thank you so much Sumit Sir,really appreciate your effort and helping us learn Excel through your videos.

[@SteS]

I use google sheets now as it has a regular expression function built-in. I wrote a regex fn in vba for excel but it's nice for this to work online using google sheets.
Perhaps a good video would be to compare the two. Excel vs. Google Sheets

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[@Balsero-qb9gv]

Thank you very much for this video!! I have a question please, how can I separate the names if they have a minus symbol (-) in between? Example: John-Smith
Thank you so much!!

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[@trumpexcel]

Thanks Puneet! Glad you find the tutorials useful

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[@N7eptune]

I found Flash Fill or Ctrl+E useful to extract the first and middle names from a list of names where there was surname followed by a comma then a first name and . I then used IFERROR(RIGHT([@First],LEN([@First])-SEARCH(" ",[@First])),"") to separate the middle names from the list, avoiding an error where there was no middle name (where [@First] is my list of first names with some middle names in my table). Probably not 100% fool proof but in my situation I can always copy and replace with values only to get rid of the formula. Similarly some surnames easily extracted with Flash Fill may be difficult with spaces and hyphens and require a manual fix. I found if Flash Fill has too many errors if you correct them Flash Fill will repair similar errors in the list. Temporarily inserting a column usually stops Flash Fill from making corrections you do not want.

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[@HermesLizama]

This is easy when you have a pretty data set like that. Do the same with names entered in different formats mixed like (firstname lastname) or (lastname, firstname) or (lastname firstname) and THEN you can talk all you want.

[@abirsarkar7075]

If some of the names have a middle name and some don't have a middle name and those without a middle name have to be replaced with a ( space ). How to do this?
Thank you for the clear explanation

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I'm unable to find the estricks in key board how it look like and where it will be keyboard please guide

[@husain_johar]

Hello!
How to extract a text string consisting of four spaces or more for that matter using a dynamic formula
For example : File Another Dir Sample
Now here, i want "Another Dir" in one column
I have understood how to extract the first and the last part of the string using the left and right function. what i want to know is how to extract this result using the dynamics of the mid function
please help me on this!

[@payaljain5497]

Hi Sumit, Can you please share the practice file for this video?

[@edgarvalmorida2160]

How do you split with multiple first names (e.g. John Michael P. Jones).

[@gyefawkes7868]

What if the name doesn't have a middle initial and you have data that contains initials and those without your Last name would appear in your middle name.

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same problem here

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Can split long names (more than 8 names )

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