CountriesResponse

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/namegender/main/json-schema/namegender-countries-response-schema.json",
  "title": "CountriesResponse",
  "description": "Two lists, deliberately not merged. `registrations` is measured volume and is comparable only among countries that publish counts. `attested_in` is presence, with no weight attached — a country appears there whether or not anyone counted it.",
  "x-generated": "2026-10-06",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/_original/namegender-api-openapi.json#/components/schemas/CountriesResponse",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "credits_charged": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many credits this call took from the balance: always 1."
    },
    "credits_remaining": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Balance once this call is paid for."
    },
    "data_version": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Name-dataset snapshot that produced the answer."
    },
    "request_id": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Identifier of this call, also sent as the `X-Request-Id` header. Quote it in support requests."
    },
    "took_ms": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Whole milliseconds spent building the distribution on our side, network time excluded."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The name that was looked up."
    },
    "basis": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "What the numbers rest on. Carried in the response rather than left to the documentation, because the person reading a percentage is not reading the docs.",
      "properties": {
        "counted_sources": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "description": "The statistical offices that publish observation counts."
        },
        "counted_countries": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Countries with counted registrations for this name, before `limit` is applied. Can be larger than the length of `registrations`."
        },
        "attested_countries": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Countries in `attested_in`, which `limit` never cuts."
        },
        "note": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Plain-language caveat. Show it next to the percentages."
        }
      }
    },
    "registrations": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Countries with counted registrations, most first, cut to `limit`. Shares are calculated across every counted country before the cut, so they sum to 100 only when nothing is cut.",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "country": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2."
          },
          "count": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Observed registrations."
          },
          "share": {
            "type": "number",
            "format": "float",
            "description": "This country's percentage of the name's registrations across all counting countries, including any that `limit` cut from the list."
          },
          "gender": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Majority gender for the name in this country."
          },
          "probability": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Share, 0–100, carrying that gender in this country."
          },
          "source": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Statistical office the count comes from."
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "attested_in": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Every country the name occurs in, counted or not, alphabetically."
    }
  }
}