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Sterling

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 1 · observations: 5

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
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:a32c1b59-3160-5588-ab6d-77f45f7dc1e5", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:bbcce8eb-fa60-5165-b184-5addeec887b0", "form_id": "frm:a6276c29-eaaa-52fc-a787-6ac73b21f853", "gender": "unknown", "language": "en" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
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:f7cbcc34-19d5-5bc4-a71c-63f99bc9b5df", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:94d085c6-c78d-5e1a-bc8b-82f40282a9fc", "form_id": "frm:a6276c29-eaaa-52fc-a787-6ac73b21f853", "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
Sterling	Stirling	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:2d38cab4-15a7-59cf-b243-44b1e2e98f5b", "from_form_id": "frm:a6276c29-eaaa-52fc-a787-6ac73b21f853", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:0016d206-c6a7-5f0f-b80e-a33b1c969723", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:dd2d3cf2-b0b6-5ef4-8e8f-0d9133126389" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Sterling

Stirling

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:2d38cab4-15a7-59cf-b243-44b1e2e98f5b",
    "from_form_id": "frm:a6276c29-eaaa-52fc-a787-6ac73b21f853",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:0016d206-c6a7-5f0f-b80e-a33b1c969723",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:dd2d3cf2-b0b6-5ef4-8e8f-0d9133126389"
}

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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: 5

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Female	Not available	218
United States	2025	Male	Not available	944
England and Wales	2025	Male	Not available	24
Cologne	2021	Male	2	1
Cologne	2021	Male	3	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": 218,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2150906
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "US",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 944,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2167449
        ],
        "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": 24,
        "published_rank": 1197,
        "rank_quality": "consistent_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            20500
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:36dd36eb-7121-5ee0-b093-b8e73d0764d4",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": 2,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "scope_note": "source_description_position_conflict",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            20207
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:b7f4b1fb-2a05-5eb3-b2b0-83d719a1b6d3",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "unit": "published_name_occurrences_at_position",
        "year": 2021
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:506d903c-098f-5879-b91a-04719496d550",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": 3,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "scope_note": "source_description_position_conflict",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            20656
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:94726146-5f6d-5a2a-ae73-fa6f55b8e08b",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "unit": "published_name_occurrences_at_position",
        "year": 2021
    }
]

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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: English · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Source classification

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Provenance of the record «Sterling»

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Relationship «Sterling → Stirling»: Source-reported equivalence

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

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Statistics: Cologne · 2021 · Male · count: 1 · name position: 3

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:911ec31a-6f8e-5c0e-b7b5-e95082632853",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:a6276c29-eaaa-52fc-a787-6ac73b21f853",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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