Guess

Statistical gender detection for Ruby

Guess.gender("Don Draper")
# => {:gender => "male", :confidence => 0.9965635738831615}
Guess.gender("Betty Draper")
# => {:gender => "female", :confidence => 0.9992498124531133}
Guess.gender("Mad Men")
# => {:gender => "unknown", :confidence => nil}

Data obtained from the US Census Bureau, so it works best with American names.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'guess'

Contributing

Everyone is encouraged to help improve this project. Here are a few ways you can help: