How to Get the Gender of a First Name using Go

Perhaps the most important determination of any person’s gender is the way that person chooses to outwardly identify themselves. Without access to that user-supplied information, however, much can be determined instead from first names and the cultures they originate from. Our “Get Gender from First Name” API takes both name & country of origin into account to determine the gender most likely associated with a given name, and it supplies that gender as a string value in response. The request format for this API can be structured following the below JSON example (or XML equivalent):

{
  "FirstName": "string",
  "CountryCode": "string"
}

Below, complementary ready-to-run Golang code examples have been provided from our API documentation page to help you structure your API call with ease. To complete your API call, you’ll need a free-tier Cloudmersive API key at minimum, which you can get by registering a free account on our website (free-tier keys yield a limit of 800 API calls per month; no financial commitments are incurred upon reaching this limit).

package main

import (
     "fmt"
     "strings"
     "net/http"
     "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

     url := "https://api.cloudmersive.com/validate/name/get-gender"
     method := "POST"

     payload := strings.NewReader(`{
    "FirstName": "<string>",
    "CountryCode": "<string>"
}`)

     client := &http.Client {
     }
     req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

     if err != nil {
          fmt.Println(err)
          return
     }
     req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
     req.Header.Add("Apikey", "YOUR-API-KEY-HERE")

     res, err := client.Do(req)
     if err != nil {
          fmt.Println(err)
          return
     }
     defer res.Body.Close()

     body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
     if err != nil {
          fmt.Println(err)
          return
     }
     fmt.Println(string(body))
}