Name Explorer is a Shiny app for exploring "gender" of names over time.
This website comes from a project which aims to provide a dataset and tools for building informed linguistics example sentences and stimuli.
For example, the Name Explorer can help to:
- select gender-fair names, informed by participant age range
- find and select racially/ethnically representative names
- generate age-appropriate lists of gender-balanced (unisex) names
- identify names perceived to be (more) 'nonbinary' or 'binary'
- identify names perceived to be (more) 'young' or 'old' (relative to participants' age)
- identify names marked for other stereotypes (e.g. race, country of origin, socio-economic class)
- gather this information by region and by age, as these stereotypes can vary internationally and generationally
If you use this tool for anything else, such as creative works, naming characters, naming babies, renaming yourself, or anything else, please drop me a line to let me know at [email protected]
If you use this tool in your research, please cite it as:
APA:
Ackerman, Lauren. (2023). Name Explorer App (v0.1) [Shiny Web App].
Available: https://lmackerman.shinyapps.io/Names_Explorer_App/
BibTeX:
@misc{ackerman_name_2023,
title = {{Name Explorer App} (v0.1)},
url = {https://lmackerman.shinyapps.io/Names_Explorer_App/},
author = {Ackerman, Lauren},
year = {2023},
}