This service uses Freebase to determine the gender of names, and offers a JSON API: http://genderednames.freebaseapps.com/ zoia in #code4lib has a gender plugin based on it. Misty On 13-01-28 4:02 PM, "Eric Lease Morgan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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? > >-- >ELM