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What we measure, what we get wrong, and how to put a gender column on a list of names. Written for the people who have to make the call, not for search engines.

31 August 2026 5 min read guide batch

Add a gender column to a CSV or Excel file

A walkthrough for analysts: upload a name list, pick the right columns, read the confidence fields, and decide what to do with the rows that come back empty.
30 August 2026 5 min read measurement buying

How to compare name-to-gender APIs without trusting anyone's marketing

What to measure before you pick a vendor, why a single accuracy percentage tells you nothing, and how to run the same test on all of them — including us.
29 August 2026 4 min read measurement coverage

Our coverage, script by script — including where we fail

A reproducible benchmark across 4,610 names, 25 countries and nine writing systems. Two scripts return almost nothing, and we publish those numbers too.

Add a gender column to a CSV or Excel file

How to compare name-to-gender APIs without trusting anyone's marketing

Our coverage, script by script — including where we fail