rustemgareev/russian-surnames

Russian Surnames

Description

This dataset contains over 300,000 Russian surnames with gender classification (m, f, u).

For a dataset of Russian given names, see Russian Names with Popularity Scores.

Usage

The dataset can be loaded using the Hugging Face datasets library.

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("rustemgareev/russian-surnames", split='train')

# Print the first example
print(dataset[0])

Example Output:

{
  "surname_cyrl": "Аалферов",
  "surname_latn": "Aalferov",
  "gender": "m"
}

Data Structure

Each record contains the following fields:

• surname_cyrl (string): The surname in the original Cyrillic script.
• surname_latn (string): The surname transliterated into the Latin alphabet.
• gender (string): The grammatical gender of the surname, classified as:
  • m: Male
  • f: Female
  • u: Unisex (applicable to both genders)

License

The dataset is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.