Datasets:

nltk-data-hub
/

names

configs:
  - config_name: female
    data_files:
      - split: names
        path: data/female/names.parquet
  - config_name: male
    data_files:
      - split: names
        path: data/male/names.parquet
license: other
task_categories:
  - text-classification
pretty_name: NLTK Names Corpus

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/}
}