Determine Gender From a Name

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High-Volume Integrations With Easy-to-Use APIs

Integrate gender prediction directly into your workflows and perform efficient inference on big datasets with our simple APIs built for high volumes. Get started quickly with community libraries for any programming language.

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Full Name Parsing

Our name parsing algorithm allows you to pass full names to our API's.

Diacritics and Accents

We support diacritics from any language as well as non-latin alphabets.

Localization

Our dataset covers the whole planet and we support scoping your requests to specific countries.

Gender, age and nationality inference in CSV file

Upload and Process CSV Files

Looking to enrich your data with demographic insights? Our CSV tool allows you to upload your data and have gender, age and nationality added in minutes.

Using CSV processing is a quick way to gain insights into your users, audience, prospects and customers by analysing their demographic composition.

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Seamlessly Add Gender Information to Over 6,000 Apps

Automate and enrich your data across platforms like Google Sheets, Airtable, Shopify, and Salesforce.

With our official Zapier integration you can add gender information to any application. Automate and enrich data insights by integrating gender analysis into virtually any platform.

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With our collection of services we offer prediction of gender, age and nationality from a name.

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Genderize was first to market with name based statistical tools. For more than 12 years we've been collecting and processing data. Today we base our results on more than 1 billion people and have processed billions of requests.

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Empowering Insights Across Industries

Gender classification has applications across many different fields and industries. The ability to enhance existing datasets with demographic data can unlock new possibilities in both commercial and academic projects.

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Customer Analytics

Run gender segmentation on your customers, audience, or user datasets and gain insights into your market. Enhancing your customer profiles with demographic information can improve product development, content strategies, marketing, and promotional activities.

Academic Research

Understand the gender distribution in big corpora to analyze diversity and potential biases. Estimating the gender of authors, characters, or public figures mentioned in texts can help quantify and analyze biases and disparities in media and literature.

Audience Insights

Analyse the audience of your brand, channel or media. Understand the demographic makeup of your consumers to unlock insights and improve content development strategies.

Ship Fast With Our Healthy Community of Third-Party SDK’s

Users of our services have open sourced amazing libraries for our API's, making it easy to integrate our name checking technology into any stack. You'll find libraries for nearly every programming language.

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Daily free usage

The API and CSV tool is free for up to 100 names/day. No sign up or API key needed, so go ahead and try it out.

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Transparent pricing

We offer multiple tiers of usage. Cancellation at any time and no retention period.

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Explore how our gender classification is used by thousands of users

We handpicked some of the most interesting cases to spark ideas and learn about our tools.

  • The Guardian logo

    The Guardian, Mahana Mansfield

    The dark side of Guardian comments

    The Guardian conducted research on the 70 million comments posted on its site since 2006, aiming to shed light on the prevalence of online harassment. Using genderize they were able to infer genders from the authors of comments....

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  • Nature logo

    Nature, Oscar Brück

    A bibliometric analysis of the gender gap in leading medical journals

    Aiming to shed light on gender diversity in academia, this study uses bibliometric data of original research and our Gender API to assign sex to authors....

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  • London School of Economics logo

    The London School of Economics and Political Science, Alex Holmes and Sally Hardy

    Gender bias in peer review – opening up the black box

    This study aims to investigate the impact of gender on peer review outcomes, examining gender imbalances in academic publishing. Our API was used to check genders of reviewers....

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  • The Washington Post logo

    The Washington Post, Christopher Ingraham

    39 studio releases and only one is directed by a woman

    The underrepresentation of women in directorial roles in the Hollywood film industry is brought into focus by recent analysis, revealing that out of 39 major studio releases for the summer, only one is directed by a woman....

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