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For a quick hint -- to attempt to establish the gender of a name from another culture -- Image Search is fantastic. I'm one of these white folk with no idea whether Hideyuki is generally a male or a female name -- but a Image Search results page full of male faces is pretty conclusive.

General caveats apply about edge cases (and Gender is specifically complex issue that maybe this advice is useless)



And yet, in Germany or Austria, 'Maria' can be a man's name.


Only as a second middle name. (Klaus Maria Brandauer)




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