Lists of male and female names have been drawn up to determine the gender affiliation of the authors of scientific publications. Feminine Given Names  and Masculine Given Names were taken from Wikipedia's free encyclopedia for the listing of the lists. These lists are supplemented by names specific to the research of countries. As a result, the list of male names contains 2515 records and a list of female names - 1461 records. The following was to check the lists for the coincidence of names. 218 names coincided withdrawn from both lists.