Re: Corpora: male/female names list

Dominic Dunlop (domo@vo.lu)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:18:26 +0100

At 11:55 +0100 11-02-1998, D C Souter wrote:
>we are doing a project for which a list of common first names in English,
>divided according to male/female/both would be useful.
>Does anyone have one?

For more word lists than you can shake a stick at, see Paul Leyland's
collection at <ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/>. The file
.../names/fast-names.gz contains about 2200 names which are said to be
common in the U.S., although they are not partitioned by gender. You could
easily do this by joining them to the longer lists in
.../names/female-names.gz and ... /names/female-names.gz.

--
Dominic Dunlop