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A list of role names for future use in research on gender stereotyping was created and evaluated. In two stud-ies, 126 role names were rated with reference to their gender stereotypicality by English-, French-, and German-speaking students of universities in Switzerland (French and German) and in the U.K. (English). Role names were either presented in specific feminine and masculine forms (Study 1) or in the masculine form (generic masculine) only (Study 2). The rankings of the stereotypicality ratings were highly reliable across languages and question-naire versions, but the overall mean of the ratings was less strongly male if participants were also presented with the female versions of the role names and if the latter were presented on the left side of the questionnaires. This study aims to evaluate people's gender representa-tion of role names across three different languages, En-glish, French, and German. In order to provide norms for role names to be further used in research on gender stereo-typing, 362 participants filled in a questionnaire about their estimates of the proportion of men and women in different roles. Role names are any names that incorporate features used to describe a person or a group of people, such as hobbies (e.g., soccerfan) or occupations (e.g., dentists, ac-tors, or students). Since role names are particularly prone to gender stereotypes (Baudino, 2001), they are often used to investigate, for example, the influence of stereotypes on reading comprehension (see, e.g., Duffy & Keir, 2004