[Corpora-List] gender lists? redux

Dinoj Surendran dinoj at cs.uchicago.edu
Wed Jan 29 16:33:33 UTC 2003


http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/note139.html

The Social Security Administration published a brief study ( Actuarial
Note #139, Name Distributions in the Social Security Area, August 1997) in
1998 on the distribution of given names of Social Security number holders.
They give the study here, along with these lists:

Top 5 names by state

Top 10 names by year of birth for years 1880 through 1997, based on a 1%
sample
            Top 10 given names, by year of birth (1880-1919), and sex
            Top 10 given names, by year of birth (1920-1959), and sex
            Top 10 given names, by year of birth (1960-1997), and sex

Top 1000 names by decade based on a 5% sample. Names are limited to births
in the U.S.A.

            Top 1000 names of the 1900's
            Top 1000 names of the 1910's
            Top 1000 names of the 1920's
            Top 1000 names of the 1930's
            Top 1000 names of the 1940's
            Top 1000 names of the 1950's
            Top 1000 names of the 1960's
            Top 1000 names of the 1970's
            Top 1000 names of the 1980's
            Top 1000 names of the 1990's



On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Joel Tetreault wrote:

>
> Sorry, what I meant to write - did anyone know of a list of person names
> with gender marked masculine or feminine?  (This is for pronoun resolution
> work).
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> Joel
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> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Joel Tetreault wrote:
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> > Hi, does anyone know of a large-scale gender database for English?  I'm
> > looking for a list of nouns with their gender marked (masculine, feminine,
> > neuter).
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> >
> >
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