There has been a perl module that does this for a while http://search.cpan.org/~edaly/Text-GenderFromName-0.32/GenderFromName.pm http://search.cpan.org/~edaly/T

There has been a perl module that does this for a while http://search.cpan.org/~edaly/Text-GenderFromName-0.32/GenderFromName.pm http://search.cpan.org/~edaly/Text-GenderFromName-0.32/Gende... I see you can add names to its "dictionary" and it give a probability.