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Will

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 1 · observations: 4

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	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:436d0ade-74c6-592c-b026-e3cdadf0fb40", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:a337e02d-55d6-5b63-930e-1834caa596c2", "form_id": "frm:9ccb4223-990e-57fc-a9dc-c7dff8da55dd", "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
Will	Willow	Source-reported relationship	Evidence The source reports a relationship of type «Source-reported relationship». The direction is shown in the table row. Open source and technical details → Technical details and JSON Original claim { "evidence_id": "ev:e1b1c14f-cce9-56f8-a9b2-b70572a19f34", "from_form_id": "frm:9ccb4223-990e-57fc-a9dc-c7dff8da55dd", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:495e1157-4895-5b42-baab-6cd23dc98a1e", "position": null, "relation": "other_gender_version", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:b62b57e2-c1c9-55a5-8f72-368b09e98ca1" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Will

Willow

Source-reported relationship

Evidence

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

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Technical details and JSON

Original claim

{
    "evidence_id": "ev:e1b1c14f-cce9-56f8-a9b2-b70572a19f34",
    "from_form_id": "frm:9ccb4223-990e-57fc-a9dc-c7dff8da55dd",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:495e1157-4895-5b42-baab-6cd23dc98a1e",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "other_gender_version",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:b62b57e2-c1c9-55a5-8f72-368b09e98ca1"
}

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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: 4

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Male	Not available	170
England and Wales	2025	Male	Not available	8
Cologne	2014	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2015	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": 170,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2168298
        ],
        "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": 8,
        "published_rank": 2664,
        "rank_quality": "source_rank_disagrees_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            22212
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:a337e02d-55d6-5b63-930e-1834caa596c2",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Will",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            25346
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:a0f0fe32-1799-5a27-8ed1-cd6c656b8624",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Will",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2014
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:12120212-0cf8-56b2-b031-3543a3deca7a",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 2,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Will",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            27401
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:5f82e1b3-8e1b-5b0f-b866-155502813389",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Will",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2015
    }
]

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A source behind every claim

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2014 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Provenance of the record «Will»

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Relationship «Will → Willow»: Source-reported relationship

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Statistics: Cologne · 2015 · Male · count: 2 · name position: not specified

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:ef56d09c-5178-56f4-88a2-f49aba758f86",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:9ccb4223-990e-57fc-a9dc-c7dff8da55dd",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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