How to Get the Gender of a First Name in PHP

Information related to gender can help personalize experiences for our application’s users. Using the below API solution, you can quickly retrieve the gender associated with any (known) input name based on its country of origin and subsequently leverage that information to your benefit.

Below, you can use complementary, ready-to-run PHP code examples to rapidly structure your API call. On top of this, you’ll just need a free-tier API key (obtainable by registering a free account on the Cloudmersive website) to authenticate each request.

You can install the client SDK by running the below command:

composer require cloudmersive/cloudmersive_validate_api_client

After that, you can structure your API call with the following code examples:

<?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 information

try {
    $result = $apiInstance->nameGetGender($input);
    print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception when calling NameApi->nameGetGender: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>

That’s all there is to it — now you can retrieve gender information with minimal code!