nameBinaryGenderMap 1.0.1

Get the corresponding binary gender class (i.e., male or female) for an input name.

nameBinaryGenderMap Package

The nameBinaryGenderMap package provides a module that can easily be used to find the corresponding binary gender class (i.e., male or female) for an input name. This package uses around ~100k entries of four gender name datasets provided by catalog.data.gov.

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How to use the nameBinaryGenderMap module in python?

1. first import the nameBinaryGenderMap module as:

>>> import nameBinaryGenderMap as nbgm

2. then use the imported nameBinaryGenderMap module to check the binary gender assignment for your desired names using the whats_the_gender() function as:

>>> nbgm.whats_the_gender(name = "sara")
the binary gender assigned to 'sara' is 'female'

>>> nbgm.whats_the_gender(name = "john")
the binary gender assigned to 'john' is 'male'

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Notes:

• i) The whats_the_gender() is not sensitive to character capitalization, e.g.,

  >>> nbgm.whats_the_gender(name = "jOhN")
  the binary gender assigned to 'jOhN' is 'male'
  

• ii) The whats_the_gender() function can work for many non-English names too:

  • for instance let's check for two famous boy and girl names in Chinese -> Boy: Yichen and Girl: Yinuo:

    >>> nbgm.whats_the_gender(name = "Yichen")
    the binary gender assigned to 'Yichen' is 'male'
    
    >>> nbgm.whats_the_gender(name = "Yinuo")
    the binary gender assigned to 'Yinuo' is 'female'
    

  • let's also check for two famous boy and girl names in Middle East -> Boy: Abbas and Girl: Aaminah:

    >>> nbgm.whats_the_gender(name = "Abbas")
    the binary gender assigned to 'Abbas' is 'male'
    
    >>> nbgm.whats_the_gender(name = "Aaminah")
    the binary gender assigned to 'Aaminah' is 'female'