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](https://github.com/jeremybmerrill/beauvoir) with support for United States, United Kingdom, Argentina and Uruguay.

This is still in beta stages, use with precaution

Datasets

UK, from OpenGenderTracking project
US, from OpenGenderTracking project
AR, from Names query site from the goverment of the City of Buenos Aires. this is a small sample, use with precaution!.
UY, from Civil registry) in Montevideo. Same as in AR, Use with precaution!

How to use it

Nothing too fancy, just install:

pip install gender-detector

And then:

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

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