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gender-detection
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A node.js module to determine a person's gender based on his/her first name.
It works also for many languages other than english, supporting international names, using an own datasource of 40.000 records that can be extended. This module is able to clean the text, detecting gender from dirty or unclear names.
$ npm install gender-detection
// Require gender detection module
const gender = require('gender-detection');
let g;
// Use it to detect the gender:
g = gender.detect('Tim Johnson');
// "male"
g = gender.detect('Holly');
// "female"
g = gender.detect('GhJGhgj')
// "unknown"
// It works also with unclean or dirty names:
g = gender.detect('BiLL$...');
// "male"
g = gender.detect('::Jenni♥fer::');
// "female"
// Extract the first name
const first_name = gender.getFirstName('Mario Bros');
// "mario"
npm test
FAQs
Detect the gender of a person using his/her first name.
The npm package gender-detection receives a total of 916 weekly downloads. As such, gender-detection popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that gender-detection demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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