Inferring The World's Gender and Ethnic Diversity using Personal Names
In the early 19th century, the Americo-Liberian settlers encountered ethnically, linguistically diverse tribal populations. Even today, names reflect the diversity of populations in Liberia. Some names appear very similar to names of Afrlcan-Americans. Some other names reflect indigenous cultures.
We used NamSor ML to discover three groups of names, among male names and female names in Tatarstan. For each group, we show the most frequent given names and family names.
If you are unfamiliar with North-Macedonian language and culture, you might think that МАРЈАН is a female name, right? Well it’s not. It’s most likely a male name.
Can personal names be used to conduct gender studies, or other social research in West Africa ? Personal names convey
Some popular baby names of MALI, West Africa: Female Male FATOUMATA MOHAMED MARIAM MOUSSA AMINATA ABDOULAYE HAWA
Top 20 baby names of Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire). We’re working hard to make NamSor the best API to process African names, both for Gender studies as well as Diaspora studies.
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