| 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. | |