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Gender from names, emails and usernames, with probability, sample size and source on every answer.
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Gender from names, emails and usernames, with probability, sample size and source on every answer.
Security Report
This is a well-designed MCP server with proper authentication, secure credential handling, and appropriate permission scoping. The code is clean, well-tested, and follows security best practices. The server correctly requires an API key via environment variable, uses it only for authorized requests, and implements comprehensive error handling without exposing sensitive details. Supply chain analysis found 1 known vulnerability in dependencies (0 critical, 1 high severity). Package verification found 1 issue.
7 files analyzed · 4 issues found
Security scores are indicators to help you make informed decisions, not guarantees. Always review permissions before connecting any MCP server.
Permissions Required
This plugin requests these system permissions. Most are normal for its category.
What You'll Need
Set these up before or after installing:
Environment variable: NAMEGENDER_API_KEY
How to Install
Add this to your MCP configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"io-github-anpekesen-namegender": {
"env": {
"NAMEGENDER_API_KEY": "your-namegender-api-key-here"
},
"args": [
"-y",
"namegender-mcp"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}Documentation
View on GitHubFrom the project's GitHub README.
NameGender MCP server
Turns names, email addresses and usernames into a gender — with the evidence next to every answer: the probability, the sample size, the source and the name it matched.
Works in any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and others.
Setup
Get an API key from the namegender.com dashboard. Sign-up needs no card and comes with free credits every day.
Claude Desktop / Claude Code configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"namegender": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "namegender-mcp"],
"env": { "NAMEGENDER_API_KEY": "ng_live_..." }
}
}
}
Claude Code from the command line:
claude mcp add namegender -e NAMEGENDER_API_KEY=ng_live_... -- npx -y namegender-mcp
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
gender_from_name | Gender from a first or full name |
gender_from_email | Extracts a name from the local part of an email address |
gender_from_username | Extracts a name from a username or handle |
gender_bulk | Up to 100 values in one request, with a match-rate summary |
name_countries | Countries a name is recorded in — not a claim about origin |
account_status | Remaining credits, daily free quota, data version |
The gender tools take an optional two-letter country code. The same name
can have a different gender from one country to the next; with a code, the
answer is weighted by that country's data.
What an answer looks like
Ayşe: female · probability 99% · sample 12,345 · source ssa · country TR
An answer from a source without counts says so:
Kamon: male · probability 95% · no sample (unverified) · source wgnd
The distinction is deliberate. A 95% backed by counted people and a 95% backed by nothing are not the same thing and should not look the same.
Countries are not origin
name_countries keeps two lists apart. Counted birth registrations are
published for only seven countries (US, UK, France, Canada, Spain, Ireland,
Norway), so the ranked shares compare those seven only. Every other country
where the name is recorded appears in a separate, unranked list. Reading the
ranking as "where the name comes from" is wrong: Mehmet ranks first in
France there, and Turkey is not in the ranking at all.
Errors
Errors do not break the session. The tool returns isError and says what to
do — where to top up when credits run out, which variable to check when the
key is invalid — and includes the request ID so support can trace it.
Environment variables
| Variable | Default |
|---|---|
NAMEGENDER_API_KEY | (required) |
NAMEGENDER_BASE_URL | https://namegender.com/api/v1 |
Development
npm install
npm test
MIT licensed.
Releasing
npm version patch # also updates server.json
git push --follow-tags
The v* tag runs .github/workflows/release.yml: tests, then npm (trusted
publishing, no token), then the MCP registry (GitHub OIDC). Re-running the
workflow skips whatever is already published.
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