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Clay

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 1 · observations: 3

Candidate data 1.0.0. Unknown values have not been filled with guesses.

Language information

Dictionary information and other contexts are kept separate. A statistical territory does not establish the language of a name; a classification does not determine a person's gender.

Dictionary contexts

None provided for this spelling in this version.

Other contexts

Language	Gender in source	Basis	Evidence
Not specified	Male	Source classification	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Male. Basis: Source classification. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "source_classification", "context_id": "ctx:1391c308-d6dc-55db-b2f8-aa6d77c64bef", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:d8aaa7a7-7ea3-5bed-9baf-7dd0b3621db3", "form_id": "frm:17022cb1-e4ec-5e82-9ec5-d508b53a38c5", "gender": "male", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
English	Not specified	Usage evidence	Evidence Language: English. Source category: Not specified. Basis: Usage evidence. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "usage_evidence", "context_id": "ctx:c778cad9-745f-5857-aa53-398a31519689", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:d53cdd17-1917-5a2d-ae66-d7845ab708e4", "form_id": "frm:17022cb1-e4ec-5e82-9ec5-d508b53a38c5", "gender": "unknown", "language": "en" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Not specified	Male	Birth statistics	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Male. Basis: Birth statistics. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "official_birth_statistics", "context_id": "ctx:78d20a1a-0640-5f74-a27c-7b637c580207", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:1cb33316-ef2c-5c9f-ad4f-8ac6309bd258", "form_id": "frm:17022cb1-e4ec-5e82-9ec5-d508b53a38c5", "gender": "male", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

Related spellings

Every relationship has a direction and type. Source-reported equivalence does not imply universal interchangeability.

Relationships: 1

From	To	Type	Evidence
Clay	Klay	Source-reported equivalence	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:c9040a83-fd6c-5331-8baf-d9060113d6bc", "from_form_id": "frm:17022cb1-e4ec-5e82-9ec5-d508b53a38c5", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:6473b563-175a-5dc4-86e2-8baf1d2f9b40", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:0d9974a8-8561-5fae-ba21-0e3abab5b9c8" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Clay

Klay

Source-reported equivalence

Evidence

The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported equivalence». The direction is shown in the table row.

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Technical details and JSON

Original claim

{
    "evidence_id": "ev:c9040a83-fd6c-5331-8baf-d9060113d6bc",
    "from_form_id": "frm:17022cb1-e4ec-5e82-9ec5-d508b53a38c5",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:6473b563-175a-5dc4-86e2-8baf1d2f9b40",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:0d9974a8-8561-5fae-ba21-0e3abab5b9c8"
}

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Usage in statistics

Series differ in coverage and counting units. Values cannot be added together to measure global popularity.

SeriesObservations shown: 3

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Male	Not available	515
England and Wales	2025	Male	Not available	38
Cologne	2013	Male	Not available	2

An unspecified position is not treated as first position. Full counting units, methods and qualifications are preserved in the original data.

Observation technical details

[
    {
        "country": "US",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 515,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2167676
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "GB",
        "geography": "England and Wales",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "population_scope_ref": "boys-2025.xlsx:Notes!A6:B6",
        "published_count": 38,
        "published_rank": 845,
        "rank_quality": "consistent_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            20127
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:1cb33316-ef2c-5c9f-ad4f-8ac6309bd258",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 2,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Clay",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            16409
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:916afdc8-d828-5a4d-8e2b-14b2fc0e89c5",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Clay",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2013
    }
]

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A source behind every claim

Preserved evidence referenced by this record. Expand a description to view its source; original values are available in the technical details.

Usage context: Not specified · Male · Source classification

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Usage context: English · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2013 · Male · count: 2 · name position: not specified

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Provenance of the record «Clay»

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Relationship «Clay → Klay»: Source-reported equivalence

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Full record

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:84a40a30-e583-5643-8549-da6c0987ea84",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:17022cb1-e4ec-5e82-9ec5-d508b53a38c5",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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