# Determine gender of firstnames

# Introduction

Gender PHP extension is a port of the gender.c program originally written by Joerg Michael. The main purpose is to find out the gender of firstnames. The current database contains >40000 firstnames from 54 countries.

- Installing/Configuring
  - Installation
- Examples
  - Usage example.
- Gender\Gender — The Gender\Gender class
  - Gender\Gender::connect — Connect to an external name dictionary
  - Gender\Gender::__construct — Construct the Gender object
  - Gender\Gender::country — Get textual country representation
  - Gender\Gender::get — Get gender of a name
  - Gender\Gender::isNick — Check if the name0 is an alias of the name1
  - Gender\Gender::similarNames — Get similar names

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