# Query for the name search **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-the-name-search/5193 "2011-08-18T16:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mfeingold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mfeingold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mfeingold)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-the-name-search/5193/1 "2011-08-18T16:40:46Z")
I have a document with 2 fields - first name and last name. For the last name I would like to use exact match, phonetic match and (may be) wild card - specifically \* in the end. I would also like to do fuzzy search with edit distance no more than 2 char. For the first name I want the same plus name synonyms (Beth vs Lisa). Here is my settings file I used for indexing the data [https://gist.github.com/1154453](https://gist.github.com/1154453) What I am struggling with now is how to build a query out of the string with the first name and the last name. I can (I think) build reasonable query I can use to run the name string separately against first name or last name. How should I combine them so that record John John does not jump in front of John Smith when I run the query string "John Smith"? In other words when the document matches both fields how can I differentiate between 2 different terms from the query string matching each field vs the same term matching both fields. Also how can I account for the order in which they match - if the terms in the query string are in the order of first name than last name - I would like to give it a bigger rank than if the order is reversed. Can it be done? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-the-name-search/5193/2 "2017-07-06T03:56:40Z")