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Somali Names Dataset

goobolabs/somali-names

A curated dataset of Somali given and family names with gender and frequency metadata.

View on Hugging Face

Modality

Structured

Size

92k names

License

MIT

Language

Somali (af)

Format

CSV / Parquet

Version

v1.1

Tasks

NER, Demographic Research

Domains

Demographics

Splits

SplitRowsSize
all92,0004.2 MB

Quick start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("goobolabs/somali-names")

Cite

@dataset{goobolabs2026somnames,
  title  = {Somali Names Dataset},
  author = {Goobo Labs},
  year   = {2026},
  license= {MIT},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/goobolabs/somali-names}
}