Demographic aspects of first names. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2018 AbstractWe introduce a list that offers information on the relation between first names and race or ethnicity. Drawing information from mortgage applications, the list includes 4,250 first names and information on their respective count and proportions across six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups.
Tzioumis K.
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What's in a Name? Sound Symbolism and Gender in First Names. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Although the arbitrariness of language has been considered one of its defining features, studies have demonstrated that certain phonemes tend to be associated with certain kinds of meaning. A well-known example is the Bouba/Kiki effect, in which nonwords like bouba are associated with round shapes while nonwords like kiki are associated with sharp ...
Sidhu DM, Pexman PM.
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What's in a Name? First Names as Facial Attributes [PDF]
2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2013 This paper introduces a new idea in describing people using their first names, i.e., the name assigned at birth. We show that describing people in terms of similarity to a vector of possible first names is a powerful description of facial appearance that can be used for face naming and building facial attribute classifiers.
Huizhong Chen +2 more
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Socioeconomic Determinants of First Names [PDF]
Names, 2011 AbstractModern naming practices in the Netherlands between 1982 and 2005 were studied on the basis of 1409 popular first names, divided into fourteen name groups determined by the common preferences of parents for the names involved. Socioeconomic variables such as family income, parents' level of education, and lifestyle indicators were analyzed in ...
Bloothooft, G., Onland, D
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Naming names: the first women taxonomists in mycology
Studies in Mycology, 2018 The transition from amateur to professional in natural history is generally regarded as having taken place in the nineteenth century, but landmark events such as the 1917 appointment of mycologist Johanna Westerdijk (1883–1961) as the first female professor in the Netherlands indicate that the pattern of change for women was more varied and delayed ...
Maroske, Sara, May, Tom W.
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Using genderize.io to infer the gender of first names: how to improve the accuracy of the inference. [PDF]
J Med Libr Assoc, 2021 Sebo P.
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Erratum to "Performance of gender detection tools: a comparative study of name-to-gender inference services," 2021;109(3):414-21 and "Using genderize.io to infer the gender of first names: how to improve the accuracy of the inference," 2021;109(4):609-12. [PDF]
J Med Libr Assoc, 2022 Sebo P.
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Sex-biased sound symbolism in French first names. [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2019 Suire A +3 more
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Sex-biased sound symbolism in english-language first names. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2013 Pitcher BJ, Mesoudi A, McElligott AG.
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