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Sheila

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 1 · observations: 7

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
Dutch	Not specified	Usage evidence	Evidence Language: Dutch. 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:2fedf4b3-c759-55c5-89b1-dac7e8dc055d", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:d7e30ab4-a00e-53c4-b861-aa7252ed48a8", "form_id": "frm:974a0cb8-dd3d-56c2-b470-c52fb4e07665", "gender": "unknown", "language": "nl" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Not specified	Female	Source classification	Evidence Language: Not specified. Source category: Female. 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:705fecd9-bc47-54e2-809a-c7a7efcce149", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:afcab48d-216b-52c8-b03e-136a5892fc91", "form_id": "frm:974a0cb8-dd3d-56c2-b470-c52fb4e07665", "gender": "female", "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:908fce16-edfb-58c2-b2d4-e87f6c235e44", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:1e2842ad-0738-5ad0-a7e6-ec6e38fcdd19", "form_id": "frm:974a0cb8-dd3d-56c2-b470-c52fb4e07665", "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
Sheila	Sheyla	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:bdfdbab7-48dd-55c4-a5e7-f7d177be3e2c", "from_form_id": "frm:974a0cb8-dd3d-56c2-b470-c52fb4e07665", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:d6959eb6-3d24-536f-8501-17424abf3c46", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:595200b9-edce-53f2-a17f-c6c7204fc11f" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Sheila

Sheyla

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:bdfdbab7-48dd-55c4-a5e7-f7d177be3e2c",
    "from_form_id": "frm:974a0cb8-dd3d-56c2-b470-c52fb4e07665",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:d6959eb6-3d24-536f-8501-17424abf3c46",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:595200b9-edce-53f2-a17f-c6c7204fc11f"
}

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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: 7

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Female	Not available	65
England and Wales	2025	Female	Not available	7
Cologne	2013	Female	Not available	1
Cologne	2014	Female	Not available	1
Cologne	2015	Female	Not available	1
Cologne	2018	Female	Not available	1
Cologne	2019	Female	1	1

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": 65,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2152492
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "GB",
        "geography": "England and Wales",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "population_scope_ref": "girls-2025.xlsx:Notes!A6:B6",
        "published_count": 7,
        "published_rank": 3333,
        "rank_quality": "source_rank_disagrees_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            51890
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:1e2842ad-0738-5ad0-a7e6-ec6e38fcdd19",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "resolved_text": "Sheila",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            19740
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:db210dc5-f165-5b89-900a-2f3a0452d166",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "source_text": "Sheila",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2013
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:b58018d7-22b7-562e-a9cf-d379b1cbf3df",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "resolved_text": "Sheila",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            24965
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:8a3ba4ec-377d-5998-b9dd-8784390aa970",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "source_text": "Sheila",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2014
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:07e0bc88-c7ed-587e-a834-b40e42d2379f",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "resolved_text": "Sheila",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            30414
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:60d245a1-6062-5c3e-9618-726b81da7ec5",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "source_text": "Sheila",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2015
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:26a02907-6fb6-5ad8-a41f-7cc4051b2349",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "resolved_text": "Sheila",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            47665
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:8d6706f6-5fcf-5c51-95d0-39ae9ad0d41e",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "source_text": "Sheila",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2018
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:ca904a82-76e2-5b37-a3ef-1a03d2c94a84",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": 1,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "scope_note": "source_description_position_conflict",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            3392
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:14719501-c333-5c7b-851d-096f408c9534",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "unit": "published_name_occurrences_at_position",
        "year": 2019
    }
]

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A source behind every claim

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Usage context: Dutch · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Female · Source classification

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Usage context: Not specified · Female · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2013 · Female · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Provenance of the record «Sheila»

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Relationship «Sheila → Sheyla»: Source-reported equivalence

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

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

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

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Statistics: Cologne · 2019 · Female · count: 1 · name position: 1

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:2ed5d627-8cc3-5d49-8348-f7b5fcd12b3a",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:974a0cb8-dd3d-56c2-b470-c52fb4e07665",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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