Guess gender from indian names

Motivation

I was not able to find a open source library that guess gender from indian names. So made one.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7
• Pipenv

Development - Setup instructions

• Clone this repository.
• cd to the repo
• Activate pipenv pipenv shell
• Install dependencies pipenv install
• Fire up a python shell and type the following.

>>> from guess_indian_gender import IndianGenderPredictor
>>> i = IndianGenderPredictor()
>>> i.predict(name="adhi") # returns male

Installation

• pip install guess-indian-gender

Accuracy

• Currently the accuracy is 0.88. Any contributions are welcome to improve the accuracy.

Changelog

• When the last letter is considered as a feature for gender detection the accuracy is 78%.
• When the last four letters was considered the accuracy became 88%.

Todo

• Convert to Pip package.
• Convert to nice oops.
• Improve accuracy to 95%.

Dataset credits

• https://github.com/mbejda
• Male names - https://gist.github.com/mbejda/7f86ca901fe41bc14a63
• Female names - https://gist.github.com/mbejda/9b93c7545c9dd93060bd

License

MIT. See license file for more info