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tcteng712360
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Jun 10, 2020

turn name into gender in excel

Hi, if i've a column full of names (like James and Jane), how can i create another column to turn these names into gender like male and female? Thanks

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  • michelwehrli's avatar
    michelwehrli
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    tcteng712360
    Take a look here: https://api.nameror.com/en/blog/post/determine-gender-of-names-in-excel-spreadsheet/

     

    Cheers and happy holidays!

  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
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    tcteng712360 

    Afraid that's only manually, Excel has no idea about the genders. If there are many repeating names, you may create dict table which maps James on male and Jane on female, etc. After that VLOOKUP or INDEX/MATCH it to fill the data.

    • the_analyzer's avatar
      the_analyzer
      Copper Contributor
      What If I know to identify them.
      Like with annotation in name.
      Like Shri=means "Male" & Smt= "Female".
      So now How can I create a column for male and females.
      Please help me on this.
      • HML34's avatar
        HML34
        Copper Contributor

        the_analyzer found this website that does the conversion of names to gender

         

        https://namsor.app/csv-excel-tool

         

         

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