---
id: "is_kennitala"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["IS"]
langs: ["is"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/is_kennitala"
---

# Icelandic identity number (kennitala) (`is_kennitala`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Iceland (IS)
- Languages: Icelandic (is)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `2812800669` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `0701527979` — Synthetic number with a valid check digit
- `281280-0669` — The first example in its printed form
- `28128006697` (invalid example) — One character too many

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:OfficialID`
- orgid: `IS-KEN`
- stdnum: `is_.kennitala`

## Supported by tools

- `awsglue`
- `dataprep`
- `pythonstdnum`

## Translations

- is: Kennitala

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennitala>
- other: <https://arthurdejong.org/python-stdnum/doc/2.2/stdnum.is_.kennitala.html>
- other: <https://docs.dataprep.ai/user_guide/clean/clean_is_kennitala.html>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/is_kennitala.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/IS/persons/is_kennitala.yaml>