Detect Gender in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Predict likely gender by the row. Returns an AI gender guess down a whole column — Google Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 2 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

genderdetector.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("genderdetector", A2, "field", "country")

Name

Country

Detected

Gender

John Mcdonald

TRUE

male

click any cell to see its formula2 credits / cell

Ways to use it

Turn IDs into detail

Fill =VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "country") down a column of identifiers and expand each into full, structured detail — no manual lookups.

Enrich a table in place

Add Detect Gender beside your existing rows to append the fields you were missing, right where the data lives.

Keep it current

Let auto-refresh re-resolve the column on a schedule so the enriched data never goes stale.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "country")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "country")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

country
The country code for the name (e.g., US). Recorded and echoed back in the response, but detection does not yet vary by country - the same name returns the same gender whichever code you pass
=VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "country", "US")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Detected
=VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "detected")
Gender
=VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "gender")
Name
=VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "name")
Country
=VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "country")

Detect Gender, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Detect Gender into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "field", "detected") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Detect Gender?

Detect Gender returns detected, gender, name and country — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what Detect Gender returns?

Yes — Detect Gender takes "country" as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("genderdetector", "John Mcdonald", "country", "US") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Can I fill a whole column of Detect Gender at once?

Yes. Put your name values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Detect Gender cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 2 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Detect Gender work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Detect Gender

Turn IDs into detail

Enrich a table in place

Keep it current

Detect Gender, answered

Put Detect Gender in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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