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Donovan

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 1 · observations: 3

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

Language	Gender in source	Basis	Evidence
English	Male	Usage evidence	Evidence Language: English. Source category: Male. 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 { "attribution_id": "attr:7450233c-9396-510a-b9a2-ed9c2c2c63a2", "basis": "usage_evidence", "context_id": "ctx:74005e14-3865-5252-9276-6c8613c779f7", "country": null, "definition_qualifications": [], "evidence_id": "ev:4ccfcad6-0f46-5625-af7c-a280747c403d", "form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e", "gender": "male", "language": "en", "language_claim_scope": "dictionary_section", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "release_ready": false, "rights_status": "cleared_for_exported_claim", "text": "Donovan", "value_basis": "source_reported" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

Language

Gender in source

Basis

Evidence

English

Male

Usage evidence

Evidence

Language: English. Source category: Male. Basis: Usage evidence. This is a source claim, not a statement about a particular person.

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Technical details and JSON

Original claim

{
    "attribution_id": "attr:7450233c-9396-510a-b9a2-ed9c2c2c63a2",
    "basis": "usage_evidence",
    "context_id": "ctx:74005e14-3865-5252-9276-6c8613c779f7",
    "country": null,
    "definition_qualifications": [],
    "evidence_id": "ev:4ccfcad6-0f46-5625-af7c-a280747c403d",
    "form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e",
    "gender": "male",
    "language": "en",
    "language_claim_scope": "dictionary_section",
    "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
    "release_ready": false,
    "rights_status": "cleared_for_exported_claim",
    "text": "Donovan",
    "value_basis": "source_reported"
}

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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:2d1bcc6f-9966-59ab-9490-e62969dce385", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:34acbffd-8dca-5f37-9431-86eee28e622b", "form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e", "gender": "unknown", "language": "nl" } 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:98028fe7-100b-5e51-b49e-c519437decac", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:ee5be014-389d-5df8-803a-1250d481bd51", "form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e", "gender": "male", "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:791e3b65-3f54-5c09-9dc8-cd4a69284e3b", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:672b3680-1ae0-5afa-ad1d-0b0ad229221d", "form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e", "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
Donovan	Donivan	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:516851ec-bff9-55f6-b71e-84e096aa69db", "from_form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:e2885819-6647-5b76-afa1-0d6f3b41e85b", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:582e66fe-fc68-536f-9924-85a212a5fa43" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Donovan

Donivan

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:516851ec-bff9-55f6-b71e-84e096aa69db",
    "from_form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:e2885819-6647-5b76-afa1-0d6f3b41e85b",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:582e66fe-fc68-536f-9924-85a212a5fa43"
}

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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: 3

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Male	Not available	609
England and Wales	2025	Male	Not available	28
Cologne	2012	Male	Not available	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": 609,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2167599
        ],
        "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": 28,
        "published_rank": 1066,
        "rank_quality": "consistent_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            20352
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:672b3680-1ae0-5afa-ad1d-0b0ad229221d",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Donovan",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            12649
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:c742457a-dadf-5a35-8a64-a334dc104667",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Donovan",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2012
    }
]

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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: Dutch · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Source classification

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2012 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Dictionary context: English · Male · Usage evidence

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Provenance of the record «Donovan»

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Relationship «Donovan → Donivan»: Source-reported equivalence

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Full record

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:3df7e7be-d299-57fa-9000-e4cf10b18993",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:b1c8d2ab-ac00-5f0e-bc75-1a33b6123c0e",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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