Datatypes

Icelandic identity number (kennitala)

ID is_kennitala

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft

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Kennitala, the 10-digit identity code of individuals and organisations in Iceland. It starts with a date (DDMMYY; organisations add 40 to the day), then two digits, a check digit and a century digit (9 for the 1900s, 0 for the 2000s). A hyphen usually follows the sixth digit.

Categories
Personally identifiable information, Person related
Countries
Iceland
Languages
Icelandic
W3C DPV
pd:OfficialID
python-stdnum
stdnum.is_.kennitala
ORG-ID.guide
IS-KEN
Quality
100/100
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, DataPrep, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^[0-7]\d[01]\d{3}-?\d{3}[09]$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
2812800669Synthetic number with a valid check digit
0701527979Synthetic number with a valid check digit
281280-0669The first example in its printed form
28128006697 invalidOne character too many

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
IcelandicKennitala

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