DavideViolante/gender-detection-from-name

# Gender detection from name
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Library to detect the gender of a first name. An optional language parameter can be specified to improve the detection, for example: Andrea in EN is female, in IT is male. If no language is specified, EN has priority.

### Install
`npm i gender-detection-from-name`

### Example
```js
const { getGender } = require('gender-detection-from-name');

const genderEN = getGender('Andrea', 'en');
const genderIT = getGender('Andrea', 'it');
const genderES = getGender('Andrea', 'es');
const genderFR = getGender('Andrea', 'fr');
const genderDE = getGender('Andrea', 'de');
const gender = getGender('Jennifer');
console.log(genderEN); // female
console.log(genderIT); // male
console.log(genderES); // male
console.log(genderFR); // male
console.log(genderDE); // female
console.log(gender); // female
```

### Supported languages
`en`, `it`, `es`, `fr`, `de`

### Run tests
```npm test```

### Run lint
```npm run lint```

### Contribute
Feel free to contribute to this project to add more names in different languages.

### Author
- [Davide Violante](https://github.com/DavideViolante/)