Gender Detector

Gender detector is a Python library for guessing a person's gender by his/her first name. This library is based on beauvoir with support for United States, United Kingdom, Argentina and Uruguay.

This is still in beta stages, use with precaution

© 2014 Marcos Vanetta. Available under GPL2 License. See LICENSE.

Datasets

• UK, from OpenGenderTracking project <http://opengendertracking.github.com>_
• US, from OpenGenderTracking project <http://opengendertracking.github.com>_
• AR, from Names query site <http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/registrocivil/nombres/busqueda/buscador_nombres.php?menu_id=16082>_ from the goverment of the City of Buenos Aires. this is a small sample, use with precaution!.
• UY, from Civil registry <https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/dataset/partidas-de-registro-civil-de-montevideo>_) in Montevideo. Same as in AR, Use with precaution!

How to use it

Nothing too fancy, just install:

.. code-block:: bash

pip install gender-detector

And then:

.. code-block:: python

from gender_detector import GenderDetector
detector = GenderDetector('us') # It can also be ar, uk, uy.
detector.guess('Marcos') # => 'male'

TODO:

• Add information about statistics
• Better datasets