How to get the gender of a first name in PHP

Cloudmersive

Aug 1, 2019·1 min read

Here is a simple method to determine the gender of someone’s name. Begin by referencing our Validate API Client:

"require": {
    "cloudmersive/cloudmersive_validate_api_client": "^1.4",
}

Call nameGetGender, as follows:

<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\NameApi(
    
    
    new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
    $config
);
$input = new \Swagger\Client\Model\GetGenderRequest(); // \Swagger\Client\Model\GetGenderRequest | Gender request informationtry {
    $result = $apiInstance->nameGetGender($input);
    print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception when calling NameApi->nameGetGender: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>

Now we input the desired name and country code (if possible, to narrow the results):

{
  "FirstName": "Lydia",
  "CountryCode": "US"
}

And it will return the following:

{
  "Successful": true,
  "Gender": "Female"
}

See? Very simple.