Predict the Ethnicity of a Name
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Integrate With High-Volume API
Integrate ethnicity 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.
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.
Upload and Process CSV Files
Looking to enrich your data with demographic insights? Our CSV tool allows you to upload your data and check gender, age and nationality predicted in minutes.
Using CSV processing is a quick way to gain insights into your users, audience, prospects and customers by analysing their demographic composition.
Upload CSVMeet the Whole Suite
With our collection of services we offer prediction of gender, age and nationality from a name.
genderize.io
Classify gender from names
agify.io
Estimate age from names
nationalize.io
Predict ethnicity from names
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.
Read about our dataEmpowering Insights Across Industries
Classification of ethnicity 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.
Explore casesCustomer Analytics
Run ethnicity prediction 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 ethnic distribution in big corpora to analyze diversity and potential biases. Classification of ethnicity of authors, characters, or public figures mentioned in texts can help quantify and analyze biases and disparities in media and literature.
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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.
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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.
- Ruby
- Python
- Go
- Javascript
- PHP
- Java
- C#
- R
- Scala
SteelPangolin/genderize
PythonPython client for the Genderize.io web service.
kalimu/genderizeR
RR package for gender predictions
pixelpeter/laravel5-genderize-api-client
PHPLaravel 5 client for the Genderize.io API
acceptable-security/gender.py
PythonA simple python library to take first names and return their gender using the genderize.io API.
barttyrant/php_genderize
PHPphp lib for handling genderize.io
barelyknown/gendered
RubyGuess the gender of names with the help of the genderize.io.
irobson/jgenderize
JavaSimple Java extension to know the gender of a given first name. It consumes the http://genderize.io API.
vadimdemedes/detect-gender
JavascriptDetect gender from name using genderize.io API
drexed/genderize-io
RubyGenderize.io Ruby SDK.
kaspernj/genderize_io_rb
RubyA small Gem that makes it possible to determine gender from a name via the Genderize.io service.
pixelpeter/laravel-genderize-api-client
PHPLaravel 8+ client for the Genderize.io API
joaomatossilva/Genderize.Net
C#A client wrapper for the genderize.io API
matbmeijer/DemografixeR
RR wrapper for the genderize.io, agify.io & nationalize.io APIs
SteelPangolin/go-genderize
GoClient for Genderize.io web service.
masonkmeyer/agify
GoA golang library for agify.io API
masonkmeyer/nationalize
GoA golang module for calling nationalize.io
sebbo2002/genderize
Javascriptgenderize is a simple client for genderize.io, a gender prediction API
michelcaradec/gendeR
RGet gender from first names using genderize.io API
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Register an accountDaily 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.
Transparent Pricing
We offer multiple tiers of usage. Cancellation at any time and no retention period.
See pricingExplore How Ethnicity Prediction Is Used by Thousands of Users
We handpicked some of the most interesting cases to spark ideas and learn about our tools.
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Read moreThe 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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Read moreNature, 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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Read moreThe 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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Read moreThe 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....
Frequently Asked Questions
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How can you predict the ethnicity of a last name?
Many names have their origins from certain countries and as such there's a high correlation between last names and ethnicity. With our database of ~1 billion people , we can give statistical probablities on the origins of names.
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Can the tool be integrated with our customer relationship management (CRM) systems?
There's plenty of ways to start integrating our prediction services with your existing tools. The easiest way to get started is with our official no-code apps for Zapier, Make and Pipedream.
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What kind of customer support do you offer?
We're available on email to answer questions and help you out in integrating gender classification as part of your workflow. Reach out at info@genderize.io .