http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/people/Andy/projectpage_names.html http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/people/Andy/projectpage_names.html "Estimating Age, Gender, and Identity using

http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/people/Andy/projectpage_names.html http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/people/Andy/projectpage_names.html "Estimating Age, Gender, and Identity using First Name Priors" Although the paper looks at this in the context of computer vision -- matching faces in an image with names in the caption -- it should provide some information (and references) on your problem.