1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/name.js b/lib/name.js
index 49b54614..3312b250 100644
--- a/lib/name.js
+++ b/lib/name.js
@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ function Name (faker) {
     if (typeof faker.definitions.name.male_first_name !== "undefined" && typeof faker.definitions.name.female_first_name !== "undefined") {
       // some locale datasets ( like ru ) have first_name split by gender. since the name.first_name field does not exist in these datasets,
       // we must randomly pick a name from either gender array so faker.name.firstName will return the correct locale data ( and not fallback )
+
+      if(typeof gender === 'string') {
+        if(gender.toLowerCase() === 'male') {
+          gender = 0;
+        }
+        else if(gender.toLowerCase() === 'female') {
+          gender = 1;
+        }
+      }
+
       if (typeof gender !== 'number') {
         if(typeof faker.definitions.name.first_name === "undefined") {
           gender = faker.random.number(1);