---
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](https://www.nltk.org/), split by gender.

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

## Usage

```python
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

```bibtex
@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/}
}
```