ukstv / sexmachine

Get gender from first name in scala

Sex Machine

The library helps to define a sex of a person by name. It uses the underlying data prepared by Jorg Michael for program "gender".

import me.ukstv.sexmachine.Detector

Detector.getGender("Bob")    // Male
Detector.getGender("Sally")  // Female
Detector.getGender("Pauley") // Unisex

The result may be one of Unisex, Male, Female, MostlyMale, or MostlyFemale. Any unknown name is considered Unisex, unless you use Detector.getGenderOpt:

Detector.getGenderOpt("Jordan")  // Some(MostlyMale)
Detector.getGenderOpt("Jordano") // None

getGenderOpt returns None if the library has no data for the specified name.