NLTK Names Corpus

Name lists from NLTK, split by gender.

Each gender is a separate config. Each row is one name.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("nltk-data-hub/names", "female")
names = ds["names"]["name"]

Schema

Column	Type	Description
name	string	The name

Configs

Config	Count
female	5,001
male	2,943

Source

Originally distributed as part of nltk.download('names'). Converted to Parquet for use with the HuggingFace datasets library.

Citation

@book{nltk,
  author    = {Bird, Steven and Klein, Ewan and Loper, Edward},
  title     = {Natural Language Processing with Python},
  publisher = {O'Reilly Media},
  year      = {2009},
  url       = {https://www.nltk.org/}
}