How to identify gender on indian names...

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Actually i need to know the gender of indian names by proving their names.

Can somebody will help me in this.???

Posted 1-Jan-11 7:19am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Jan-11 13:28pm

Could you provide a comprehensive description of all the options of all the forms? To solve the programming problem, one needs to solve linguistic problem, but... are you posting a linguistic question?

Toli Cuturicu 2-Jan-11 8:02am

Yes SAKryulov, you are being right. This is not a programming question.

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2011-01-01T18:35:00

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Nope not possible.

You could build your own dictionary or look for a site with names (and a web service) to access those names.

Posted 1-Jan-11 18:35pm

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Sandip Matsagar · Answer 2 · 2014-06-17T21:37:00

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unless its not life critical application ..
i wold like to suggest some common pattern in indian names ...
like ..
girl names mostly ends with a,i,u like vowels..
as sunita, annita, sangita, priya, shruti, nisha ...
and contains more than one vowels most of the times
and at the other end boys name mostly ends with non vowel...

Note : mostly .. not all the times ;)

m using this logic in my sw ..

Posted 17-Jun-14 21:37pm

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Richard MacCutchan 18-Jun-14 4:50am

Please do not post in old questions; this one is over 3 years old. The questioner will have long since lost interest in this issue.

Sandeep Mewara · Answer 3 · 2011-01-01T07:30:00

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Almost not possible. In India, there are lots of names which are used both for men and women.

Though, if you still want to then you need to make a repository of all possible/known names categorized into male-female. Based on this list, you can pick the gender of the name when provided.

Posted 1-Jan-11 7:30am

Sandeep Mewara

Updated 1-Jan-11 8:28am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Jan-11 22:36pm

Sandeep, thank you for the answer. I thought it was impossible (in this case, "almost impossible" and "impossible" is the same thing). It is still unclear, is that impossibility about just a surname or a combination of a surname and a given name. I thought Indian given name are pretty much gender-specific, but surnames are not (I also know from another CodeProject participant, that some Indians only have given name, not a surname; this participant created his name when he relocated to West.) Also, based on your own assessment, your suggestion about for name repository will not work, unless you introduce 3 genders: "certainly male", "certainly female" and "either male of female".

More importantly, who do you consider as Indians? How many ethnic groups are there? I think the known number is not precise. And what to do with a person of foreign descend leaving in India or possible given an Indian citizenship? This all makes whole problem making no sense. Every computer-based system needs to include gender data in the person's identity, not calculate on the fly.
Even in my native culture using most gender-specific name forms (brother and sister have different forms of the surname inherited from their father, how about that? gender is almost 100% recognized by the form of a given name and somewhat less by the form of a surname) there are exclusions.

Sandeep Mewara 2-Jan-11 1:08am

Ok. let me share few facts about names in India. (Ex: Sandeep Singh -> can be of male as well as female.)
1. There are lots of names that are used both for male and female
2. Quite a lot does not use their actual surname, either dont use at all or use a dummy 'Kumar' at times
3. There is no specific form or such that needs to be filled at the time of birth of a child. So, if you ask how many male or female in India, no one can tell you even 2% close.
4. Surnames in India does not help in any sense to guess out the gender. They are plain and normal Surnames carried over from centruies of their family.
5. Most of the times, girls surname changes after marriage. It becomes that of a male.

My assessmesnt was just a suggestion if OP *has* to make something like that. Based on his expectation, I in a sense asked/forced him to categorize a name into only *two* category. Thus, decided from before that a given name can be male or female, no confusion!

About considering who are 'Indians'? Yes, there is a lot to know who all will be part of this application. But on a high level it was considered that people living in India. Surely exceptions would be there.

thatraja · Answer 4 · 2011-01-01T17:36:00

I second for that sandeep's answer.

BTW For your information

How to Find the Gender of a Name[^]

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Determining a person's gender from their name is not as easy as it sounds. Some people from foreign countries especially, have names that might be hard to figure out.

These methods work for well for most common names, even across different cultures and nationalities, but for uncommon names it can be difficult to predict a person's gender because many less-common names have no strong gender association.

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