Lain

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

None provided for this spelling in this version.

Related spellings

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

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    "to_form_id": "frm:67c7fcfb-3fa2-5c1e-a516-e524f711120e"
}

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    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:d36ed97e-726e-5df4-aaf3-355951275848"
}

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    "relation": "source_equivalence",
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}

Usage in statistics

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

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

[
    {
        "country": "US",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 15,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2173125
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    }
]

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.

Full record

All fields, including qualifiers, language qualifications, original codes and unknown values.

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        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:8cd4d2c7-79be-52f4-a4cc-fadc952015d8",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:716283ea-a050-56dd-99f0-b874ead5c74b",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}