{"repo":"philipperemy/name-dataset","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/philipperemy/name-dataset","clone":"git clone https://github.com/philipperemy/name-dataset.git","description":"The Python library for names.","language":"Python","stars":1015,"topics":["python","dataset","named-entity-recognition","name"],"license":"Apache-2.0","category":"databases-storage","readme_excerpt":"First and Last Name Database This Python library provides detailed insights about names, including: - Popularity (ranking by country) - Gender prediction - Country-specific statistics (105 countries supported) - Fuzzy search (e.g., search for \"ISABLE\" returns \"ISABEL\") - Autocomplete search (e.g., search for names starting with \"ISA\") It can give you an answer to some of those questions: - Who is Zoe ? Likely a Female, United Kindgom . - Knows Philippe ? Likely a Male, France . And with the spelling Philipp ? Male, Germany . - How about Nikki ? Likely a Female, United States . 📥 To download the raw CSV data for your analysis, browse here. Composition 730K first names and 983K last names, extracted from the Facebook massive dump (533M users). Installation Available on PyPI : Usage ⚠️ Note: This library requires approximately 3.2 GB of RAM to load the full dataset into memory. Make sure your system has enough available memory to avoid MemoryError . Once installed, you can run the following commands to get familiar with the library: API Searches for a name and returns metadata for both first and last names (if available). The result is: - country : The probability that the name belongs to a given country. Only the top 10 matching countries are returned. - gender : The probability of the person being male or female. - rank : The popularity rank of the name in its country (1 = most popular). 📌 Note: Gender data only applies to first names. Retrieves the most popular names across","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/philipperemy","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/philipperemy/name-dataset/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}