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Predict Gender from Names Using Historical Data

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Thanks so much for this package! Is there any possibility to include some code so that an API key can be used (to get round the 1,000 daily limit)? Or...

The National Records for Scotland publish counts of baby names by gender, including every year from 1974. [Babies First Names'](https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/names/babies-first-names/babies-first-names-summary-records-comma-separated-value-csv-format), this is available as a generically named single csv: [babies-first-names-all-names-all-years.csv](https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/babies-names/19/babies-first-names-all-names-all-years.csv)....

Hi @lmullen, got a random Q for you. I recently needed a non-English name-to-gender categorizer and was surprised how few there were even for English. So I built a wrapper...

If I have someone named "Orestes" in 1831, I can't match it in the IPUMS sample ``` > gender("Orestes",years=c(1831),method="ipums") Source: local data frame [0 x 6] Variables not shown: name...

Apologies for not browsing through all the release history for this and just spamming you with some not-quite-bugs, but I wanted to raise a few questions about `method = napp`...

`gender_df` is very useful, but requires a lot of programming for what I imagine is the normal case: creating a new column with the gender of every person in a...

There should be a default value if the name is not found. Currently it returns a 0x6 tibble but this prevents population of dataframes due to different lengths between function...

You should be able to install the development version with `remotes::install_github("lmullen/gender")`, which will then help you install any other necessary packages. _Originally posted by @lmullen in https://github.com/lmullen/gender/issues/63#issuecomment-803495740_