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A weirdly limited selection, too. Like, what if you're a Somali?
So I found a twitter thread talking about this, and the documentation page seems to indicate it's used as a lookup for a name to indicate the most likely gender of that name is. https://pecl.php.net/package/gender/0.6.0
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1343285800369147904