philipperemy/name-dataset resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Python library and dataset of 730K first names and 983K last names with country rankings, gender prediction, fuzzy search, and autocomplete. Data was extracted from a large Facebook user dump and covers 105 countries.

Use cases

• predict gender from a first name
• guess the country of origin of a name
• validate and enrich user names in a signup form
• fuzzy match misspelled names
• autocomplete name input fields
• analyze name popularity by country

When to choose

• you need offline name-to-gender or name-to-country inference in Python
• you want a large curated name dataset for analysis or ML features
• you need fuzzy or prefix search over first and last names

When to avoid

• your environment cannot spare ~3.2 GB of RAM
• you need real-time lookups with fast startup
• you require verified or consented data sources

Facets

dataset · maturity active

nlp data-science search-engine data-science analytics python cross-platform names gender-prediction name-classification fuzzy-search autocomplete demographics natural-language-processing

Member repositories

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