That would be amusing to build.

Many VIAF records have a gender specified in them.  We could aggregate
counts for each name and report back those counts.  You'd have to decide
whether being male 9 times out of 10 is a high enough confidence level
for you.

Not saying that service exists, just that it would be amusing to build.

Ralph

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 5:02 PM
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Subject: personal name api

Does anybody here now of an API allowing me to feed it a personal name
(like Tom, Dick, or Harry), and have it return the possible/probable
gender of the name? 

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ELM