Gender-API.com shows best results in name-to-gender inference service benchmark

Just recently Gender API was mentioned in a comprehensive benchmark and comparison of several available gender inference services.

The team of Gender Gap in Science who conducted the survey assembled a list with more than 7,000 people and their gender and used this list as a basis for the comparison. They combined different error metrics and constraints to define benchmarks for realistic situations (e.g.minimize the proportion of all inaccuracies while keeping the mix-ups between female and male assignments under the threshold of 5. In all benchmarks, and on almost all sources comprising the test data set, Gender API shows the best results.

"In all our benchmarks, and on almost all sources comprising our test data set, Gender API shows the best results."

This outcome makes us very proud and confirms that conducting not just a simple database lookup, but working with data in detail is the best service we can offer to our customers.

Gender Detection API

To improve the conversions of our registration form we developed a gender detection api. The gender checker only requires a first name or an e-mail address containing a first name. 1000 requests to the gender api are free every month.

What if a name can be male as well as female?

If a country code is provided, the gender detection can be improved. For example: While Andrea is male in Italy, Andrea is a female name in the US and can even be both in Germany. With every query a accuracy value is provided how sure the api is to match the right gender. Here is a list of supported countries.

Is ssl supported?

Yes, to give you the best possible privacy protection ssl up to TLS 1.2 is supported

Which countries are supported?

The API supports currently 105 countries. If a name is not found in the given country the complete database will be crawled.

An accurate gender predictor needs to have multiple decision paths to determine the best gender. Therefore the api uses every data provided by the browser to fetch the best possible result. The API is under heavy development and we try to improve it's quality every month.