I am looking for a library or database that can provide guesses about whether a person is male or female based on his or her name or nickname. Something like
john => "M",
mary => "F",
alex => "A", #ambiguous
I am looking for something that supports names other than English names (such as Japanese, Indian, etc.).
Before I get another answer along the lines of "you are going to offend people by assuming their sex/gender" let me be clear, my application does not interact with anyone. It does not send emails or contact anyone in anyway. There are no users to ask. In many cases, the person in question is dead, and the only information I have is name, birth date, and date of death. The reason I want to know the sex of the individual is to make the grammar of the output nicer and to aid in possible searches that may come latter.