gender-inference

A simple module to infer the gender of a person using it's name. The available gender are male, female, unisex

Options

• fuzzy Allow a search for names that are closest to informed name. Defaults to false
• exportMatches Return the list of matched names from library for the informed name. Defaults to false
• diacritcs If no gender is found using the informed name, will try to infer gender for the diacritcs removed name. E.g.: João to Joao. Defaults to false
• country ISO 3166-1 of the country to be filtered. Defaults to null

Instalation

npm install gender-inference

Usage

var gender = require('gender-inference');
 
gender.infer('Carlos');
gender.infer('Carlos', {fuzzy: True});

Examples

var gender = require('gender-inference');
 
gender.infer('Carlos');
// => { gender: 'male',
//      score: 1 }
 
gender.infer('Pamela');
// => { gender: 'female',
//      score: 1 }
 
gender.infer('Ruby');
// => { gender: 'female',
//      score: 0.7958224257542216,, }
 
gender.infer('Ruby Rose');
// => { gender: 'female',
//      score: 1, }
 
gender.infer('Voldemort');
// => { gender: null,
//      score: null }

License

MIT

Important

Keep in mind that some names have no specific gender and are marked as "unisex" on the database. So, for inferences of one word which results on a unisex name, a new search is done with the fuzzy flagged true if it's not defined to try to infer the gender based on the fuzzy search. If you need to receive "unisex", please inform the fuzzy as false.