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 1 credit 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 formula1 credit / 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)
=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 1 credit. 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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