GenderBase

A Personator add-on with over 100,000 genderized first names (Personator's standard table has 8,800).

• Allow accurate sex-determination based on single-word first names
• Corrects abbreviations, obvious typos, double strokes, OCR mis-reads, truncations, and others
• Allow custom-built application accessing GenderBase's wealth of genderizing data

World's Sexiest List

GenderBase 100 is the most complete and accurate sex-determination table ever produced. It contains over 100,000 unique single-word first names matched with a seven level range from strongly female to strongly male.

This extraordinary and fascinating list has been compiled from literally hundreds of millions of names from many different sources: mailing houses from Hawaii to Labrador, ethnic societies, publications, and of course, the Census Bureau.

GenderBase 100 is designed to work directly with Personator program or you can write your own routine to access GenderBase's wealth of genderizing data.

Wide Ethnic Diversity

North America is indeed the world's great "melting pot", so it's not surprising that GenderBase 100 encompasses a rich mixture of ethnic names from every national and cultural group on the planet from Argentina and Armenia to Zagreb and Zimbabwe.

A Real World Tool

Because both life and computer files have warts, GenderBase 100 includes thousands of records marked as "errors". These errors include common abbreviations, obvious typos, double strokes, OCR mis-reads, truncations, and others. Each record marked as an error has a matching correction record.

For example...

The Definitive List

Whether you're genderizing to make personal letters or to determine the sex of people who responded to an offer, GenderBase 100 is the most complete data source available anywhere.

With over 100,000 first names, it's EIGHT times more complete than any other genderizer available.

Just to give you some idea of its completeness, here are 21 different ways to name a child "Ignatz":