NAMES: First Names and Gender (U.S.)
Description
A dataset containing 1990 U.S. census data on first
names.format
A data frame with 5494 rows and 7 variablesDetails
- name. A first name.
- per.freq.
Frequency in percent of the name by gender.
- cum.freq. Cumulative frequency in percent of the name by
gender.
- rank. Rank of the name by gender.
- gender. Gender of the combined male/female list (M/F).
- 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 in
gender2
repalced with the gender that had a higherper.freq
.
References
http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/names_files.html