Gender PHP extension is a port of the gender.c program originally written by Joerg Michael. The main purpose is to find out the gender of firstnames. The current database contains >40000 firstnames from 54 countries.

For anyone curious but not curious enough to go digging around.

Ah, ITALY, my favorite gender

Genuine question. Why does a program need to know the user’s gender? (I’m asking in general, not in this particular case). Just use gender neutral pronouns to refer to the user, or, better yet, don’t talk to me at all!

Aside from niche things like targeted ads and gendered health tracking and stuff.