Names - A Web Service for First Names and Gender

This Web Service is based on a list from Jörg Michael, containing more than 40,000 forenames, with gender and the approximate frequency of each name in all European countries and in a lot of other countries like China, India, U.S.A. and Japan.

The following WSDL is the starting point for various kind of searches

http://www.thomas-bayer.com/names-service/soap?wsdl

Method summary

Countries

A list of all countries in the dictionary:

String[] getCountries()

Parameters

none

Return Value

String[] - String Array with all country names

First Name and Gender

Gender of a given name and a list of countries where persons with this name can be found. The list of countries is sortet by frequency starting with the country where the name is the most popular:

NameInfo getNameInfo(String name)

Parameters

String name: Forename to look up

Return Value

NameInfo structure containing:

String name - String with the given name
String gender - String with informations about the gender
boolean male - True if the given name is used for male or unisex
boolean female - True if the given name is used for female or unisex
String[] countries - String with country names the given name is used in

First Names in a Country

To look up the Christian names with at least a medium frequency in the given country (e.g. Germany):

String[] getNamesInCountry(String country)

Parameters

String country: Country to look up

Return Value

String[] - String Array with country names

Data Source

File "nam_dict.txt" from www.heise.de/ct, soft-link 0717182

Disclaimer

Use of this service is free of charge for both personal and commercial purposes.

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