Gender in AI Language Models: What's In a Name?

If you'd rather be called a him by language models, these are the names for you.

This is a pretty similar list to the female names, with a few more athletes in place of singers.¹ RoBERTa clearly goes to church: Jesus, Samuel, Abraham, and Abel all make this list.

I'm attributing Xander's association to Xander Bogaerts the shortshop and not Xander Harris the Buffy character or any other Xanders.↩


Name	Girls	Boys	% Girls	% Girls 2021	RoBERTa % Female
Name Brayden	Girls 1028	Boys 128054	% Girls 0.8	% Girls 2021 0.46	RoBERTa % Female 0.37
Name Xander	Girls 63	Boys 33602	% Girls 0.19	% Girls 2021 0.5	RoBERTa % Female 0.59
Name Jesus	Girls 2670	Boys 235504	% Girls 1.12	% Girls 2021 0.27	RoBERTa % Female 0.7
Name Fred	Girls 2029	Boys 343295	% Girls 0.59	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 0.96
Name Ernest	Girls 1855	Boys 301661	% Girls 0.61	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.04
Name Zayn	Girls 73	Boys 7615	% Girls 0.95	% Girls 2021 1.29	RoBERTa % Female 1.04
Name Isiah	Girls 11	Boys 24154	% Girls 0.05	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.18
Name Abel	Girls 136	Boys 59364	% Girls 0.23	% Girls 2021 0.62	RoBERTa % Female 1.25
Name Tim	Girls 188	Boys 83229	% Girls 0.23	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.26
Name Neymar	Girls 5	Boys 2613	% Girls 0.19	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.27

If you'd rather be called a him by language models, these are the names for you.

This is a pretty similar list to the female names, with a few more athletes in place of singers.¹ RoBERTa clearly goes to church: Jesus, Samuel, Abraham, and Abel all make this list.

I'm attributing Xander's association to Xander Bogaerts the shortshop and not Xander Harris the Buffy character or any other Xanders.↩


Name	Girls	Boys	% Girls	% Girls 2021	RoBERTa % Female
Name Brayden	Girls 1028	Boys 128054	% Girls 0.8	% Girls 2021 0.46	RoBERTa % Female 0.37
Name Xander	Girls 63	Boys 33602	% Girls 0.19	% Girls 2021 0.5	RoBERTa % Female 0.59
Name Jesus	Girls 2670	Boys 235504	% Girls 1.12	% Girls 2021 0.27	RoBERTa % Female 0.7
Name Fred	Girls 2029	Boys 343295	% Girls 0.59	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 0.96
Name Ernest	Girls 1855	Boys 301661	% Girls 0.61	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.04
Name Zayn	Girls 73	Boys 7615	% Girls 0.95	% Girls 2021 1.29	RoBERTa % Female 1.04
Name Isiah	Girls 11	Boys 24154	% Girls 0.05	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.18
Name Abel	Girls 136	Boys 59364	% Girls 0.23	% Girls 2021 0.62	RoBERTa % Female 1.25
Name Tim	Girls 188	Boys 83229	% Girls 0.23	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.26
Name Neymar	Girls 5	Boys 2613	% Girls 0.19	% Girls 2021 0	RoBERTa % Female 1.27