name2user

name2user is a tool to generate potential user names from one or a list of full names. Possible use-cases are password cracking with tools like hydra together with a word list or account discovery in different services.

Usage

name2user "Liam Smith"

Outputs all available user name variations for given full name.

name2user "Olivia Johnson" -c flast

Outputs user name variation FLAST (see below) for given full name.

name2user "Noah Williams" -m "somecompany.com"

Outputs all available user name variations for given full name followed by an @ and the domain.

cat some_text_file | name2user

Outputs all available user name variations for all full names in given text file.

cat some_text_file | name2user -c fulld > results.txt

Outputs user name variation FULLD for all full names in given text file and pipes them to results.txt.

Conversion types

name2user support seven conversion modes:

Limitations

• Right now, name2user is designed with western languages in mind. It might produce less helpful results for other.
• For names with more than two words, the last word is considered as last name. The first letter of the first word will be used for corresponding conversion types. Ones using the full name will include all words.