I guess it's eternally stuck in the 90s. I didn't see Perl in a long time now. 10-15 years ago it was still everywhere.

edit: No, it's stuck in the 80s: "The data comes from a 5% sampling of Social Security card applications with dates of birth from January 1980 through December 1989"

https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::GenderFromName#REGARDING-THE-...

I thought you must be joking. You were not!

Why did anyone even try and make this? It's fascinating what incomputable functions people try to shoe-horn into being computable.

I'm sure there are a few competing "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" out there by now.