README.md

metadata

license: mit
tags:
  - names
  - gender-classification
  - new-mexico

NM Names Clean

Engineered dataset of New Mexico baby names (1910–2021), derived from bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current, filtered to New Mexico.

Columns

• name — the given name
• gender — M or F
• total — total recorded births for that name+gender in NM (1910–2021)
• name_length — number of letters (engineered feature)
• last_letter — final letter, lowercased (engineered feature; strong gender signal)

Purpose

Built for a Gaussian Naive Bayes classification task: predict gender from name features. GNB reached ~0.70 accuracy vs. a ~0.61 majority-class baseline, showing the last letter carries real gender signal.

Caveat

The source dataset only records names with 5+ occurrences per state-year (privacy threshold), so rare names are excluded. Counts are recorded births, not true totals.