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Alpha

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 1 · observations: 12

Candidate data 1.0.0-rc.1. 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
French	Not specified	Language of the original label	Evidence Language: French. Source category: Not specified. Basis: Language of the original label. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "basis": "native_label_language", "context_id": "ctx:6b0ecbbe-3bd1-5971-8455-edcc165b73c4", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:24d0bb08-5757-5d78-bcca-917ab62cebe9", "form_id": "frm:88b3d66d-c76b-57e3-a867-e82d93423dde", "gender": "unknown", "language": "fr" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Not specified	Not specified	Source classification	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Not specified. 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:f08f3cb4-c4f5-57ed-b830-e28224bd6825", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:cbd0b00c-de99-5e3a-afde-859b1eaf2eaf", "form_id": "frm:88b3d66d-c76b-57e3-a867-e82d93423dde", "gender": "unisex", "language": null } 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:85a9447d-e028-596d-bc41-19f643aa8726", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:79a95aca-fae9-5369-a5ac-6d3a93f6d33c", "form_id": "frm:88b3d66d-c76b-57e3-a867-e82d93423dde", "gender": "male", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Not specified	Female	Birth statistics	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Female. 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:edea63f0-7902-5c90-b3e4-9ab9a3e8ee70", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:10b6de42-cbfd-509e-9875-4071ba737da6", "form_id": "frm:88b3d66d-c76b-57e3-a867-e82d93423dde", "gender": "female", "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
Alpha	Alfa	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:66b63506-b280-504b-b230-8ded48ace336", "from_form_id": "frm:88b3d66d-c76b-57e3-a867-e82d93423dde", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:d4d19c3b-4b54-5da6-a745-b9f4eeaba5c8", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:e38129ab-b14c-5a48-9eac-c5729c121fca" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Alpha

Alfa

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:66b63506-b280-504b-b230-8ded48ace336",
    "from_form_id": "frm:88b3d66d-c76b-57e3-a867-e82d93423dde",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:d4d19c3b-4b54-5da6-a745-b9f4eeaba5c8",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:e38129ab-b14c-5a48-9eac-c5729c121fca"
}

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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: 12

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Female	Not available	6
United States	2025	Male	Not available	71
Germany	2023	Male	Not available	3
England and Wales	2025	Male	Not available	13
Cologne	2022	Male	1	1
Cologne	2010	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2011	Female	Not available	1
Cologne	2014	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2015	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2017	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2018	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2021	Male	1	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

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        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 6,
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        "source_csv_rows": [
            2163104
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
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        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 71,
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        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
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        "published_count": 3,
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        "source_csv_rows": [
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        ],
        "source_ref": "DE",
        "year": 2023
    },
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        "geography": "England and Wales",
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        "method": "source_reported",
        "population_scope_ref": "boys-2025.xlsx:Notes!A6:B6",
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        "published_rank": 1897,
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        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
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        "year": 2022
    },
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        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Alpha",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2010
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        "source_reported_sex": "w",
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        "year": 2011
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        "year": 2014
    },
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        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2017
    },
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]

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Usage context: French · Not specified · Language of the original label

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Usage context: Not specified · Not specified · Source classification

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2022 · Male · count: 1 · name position: 1

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Usage context: Not specified · Female · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2011 · Female · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Provenance of the record «Alpha»

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Relationship «Alpha → Alfa»: Source-reported equivalence

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Statistics: Cologne · 2010 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2014 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2015 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2017 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2018 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2021 · Male · count: 2 · name position: 1

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Field and compound-status provenance

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    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:004a1d13-a087-5fc2-99a4-3f2f0c4cece5",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:88b3d66d-c76b-57e3-a867-e82d93423dde",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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