For Name (Person) generate gender according the random first name

[manueljordan]

Hello

Is possible to consider generate the gender according the generated first name?

The following is incorrect (ignore the last name part):

• Maria, Perez, male
• Tony, Fernandez, female
• John, Wilson, female
• Robert, Long, female
• Alison, Waters, male

Should be:

• Maria, Perez, female
• Tony, Fernandez, male
• John, Wilson, male
• Robert, Long, male
• Alison, Waters, female

Thanks for the understanding

Pretty nice this library so far!

[josepj]

This will be a nice addition to have.

[codingricky]

similar to the change around cities and countries.. this is a non trivial change... I don't see this being added anytime soon..

[haruntuncay]

Hi @codingricky, I would like to help implement this feature and wanted to ask if you have any design suggestions on how this issue should be tackled. Thanks in advance.

[codingricky]

Sorry for the delay but I feel there's only 2 options.

1. Use a 3rd party library/web service/api to determine the gender given a name.. so fetch a random name, ask for the gender of that name, if that's not right, then try again. I think there are significant negatives to introducing a dependency on a 3rd party web service
2. Tag all the names with a gender, too much manual work I feel for this option

Not sure that either options are really that feasible unfortunately.

@haruntuncay

[haruntuncay]

2. Tag all the names with a gender, too much manual work I feel for this option

I also thought that this seems like the only option based on the current structure. Maybe we could generate a python script that uses 3rd party services via http to determine whether a name is male/female name and re-structure the yaml file automatically. This would help us avoid adding a dependency to the project and keep trying until it is right, as the first option describes.

Of course, we would have to generate separate scripts for country/address issue and this one (person/gender) and any other issues that will arise in the future that requests a similar merge option. Unless we find a better way to merge providers, generating scripts to automate the process seems like an approachable solution for now. What do you think @codingricky ?

[manueljordan]

Hello

Tag all the names with a gender, too much manual work I feel for this option

I think it is the right path (even when at a first glance is verbose - it is), because it can be applied in some way for Country to City correct generation, and cellphone/phone correct random generation according a city (size of numbers and how they should start).

The point is implement this smoothly how a main factory to be applied for other extensions. Thus the .yml files would work in pairs.

Something like:

Person: Karla Cano, Claudia Canepa, Juan Ramirez [name and last name]
PersonWithSex: Karla Cano | Female, Claudia Canepa | Female, Juan Ramirez | Male 

Here comes the concept of Tuple

Just sharing ideas ...

[uroshekic]

Hi, has there been any progress on this feature? If not, I'd like to work on this.

[LuborVitek]

I think the way to solve this is to generate femaleName and maleName. It's even a bit more complicated for czech language where the last name is also gender specific. And in name.yml there is a separation of names female_first_name and male_first_name In case we would add female_last_name and male_last_name we would be set for all options and random gender generation would be a piece of cake.

[xiye2333333]

I have implemented a simple function to generate name with gender like the examples you mentioned. (Maria Perez, female) (Tony, Fernandez, male) --SE_SUSTech, group: Lanrand