Name Gender Checker
Enter a first name to see its exact male/female split across all SSA birth records — and whether it has crossed over between genders over time.
Free · No sign-up · Your search is never stored. Estimates from SSA birth records (1880–2024) and U.S. Census surname data.
How the gender split is calculated
The SSA records every baby name by sex, every year, back to 1880. We survival-weight those records so the percentage reflects people living today rather than everyone ever born. A name reported as 99% male (like James) has been given to girls only rarely; a name near 50/50 (like Jordan or Taylor in recent decades) is genuinely unisex in current use.
Names change gender more often than you'd think
Ashley, Leslie, and Beverly were predominantly male names in the 19th century before crossing over. The pattern is mostly one-directional — names move from male to female use far more often than the reverse — and once a name crosses, it rarely returns. If you are choosing a name for a baby and the split matters to you, check both the all-time figure above and the name's recent trend on its statistics page: the all-time split can hide a crossover that happened in the last twenty years.
What counts as gender-neutral here?
We describe a name as gender-neutral when neither sex accounts for more than about 60% of living bearers. Between 60% and 90% we call it predominantly one gender; above 90%, strongly so. These are descriptions of the data, not rules — plenty of families happily use a name against its historical split.