qdapDictionaries (version 0.0.4)

NAMES_LIST: First Names and Predictive Gender (U.S.) List

Description

A list version of the NAMES_SEX dataset broken down by first letter.

Usage

data(NAMES_LIST)

format

A list with 26 elements

Details

Alphabetical list of dataframes with the following variables:

• name. A first name.
• gender2. Gender of the combined male/female list with "B" in place of overlapping (M/F) names.
• pred.sex. Predicted gender of the names with B's ingender2replaced with the gender that had a higherper.freq.

References

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/names_files.html