What Agify does

Agify answers one question: how old is the person behind a name likely to be? Send a first name, like michael, or a full name like Sarah Johnson, and the answer comes back as an estimated age and the number of records behind it.

Every generation has names that were popular when its members were born, so a name hints at a birth year. Agify reads that signal from a large dataset of real-world name records and reports the most likely current age.

What the response contains

Every Agify response contains three fields.

`name`	The name from the request, echoed exactly as sent.
`age`	Estimated age in years. null when no prediction can be made.
`count`	Data points behind the prediction.

How Agify reads names

Send the fullest form of the name you have. Age is predicted from the given name, and the surrounding name identifies which part that is — important for surname-first and compound names. There is no need to split full names before sending them.

Name parts are identified by evidence, not position. Tanaka Hiroshi and Hiroshi Tanaka produce the same prediction.
You can send names with titles, initials, or nicknames — Agify handles them. Dr. J. Sarah Johnson reads as Sarah Johnson.
You can send accented or unaccented spellings — Agify handles both José and Jose.

The name field in the response always echoes the input exactly as sent.