Regular expression for first and last name

Question

For website validation purposes, I need first name and last name validation.

For the first name, it should only contain letters, can be several words with spaces, an

Answer 1

If you want the whole first name to be between 3 and 30 characters with no restrictions on individual words, try this :

[a-zA-Z ]{3,30}

Beware that it excludes all foreign letters as é,è,à,ï.

If you want the limit of 3 to 30 characters to apply to each individual word, Jens regexp will do the job.