Help identifying names

[Paula CastilloV]

Dear all,
I have a database with over forty thousand observations and I want to identify if the person’s first name could correspond to a woman so I can create a sex variable. The names are from Latin America. Do you have any ideas I could use? Thanks!

[Jared Greathouse]

Please read the FAQ on how to ask a question. There are 40,000 ways this may, possibly, be feasible, but you'll need to give us sample data so we can assist using dataex.

Bienvenidos a Statalist, Doña Paula.

[Mike Lacy]

Do you have some kind of list of common Latin American Spanish women's names? In some countries, government population offices have such things. If you don't have access to that, a file of first names with gender from some other study could be used for that purpose. *If* you have that in hand, I'd say we can speak to various issues of probabilistic matching of names spelled differently and such; without that, there's nothing to talk about.