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Shirley

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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
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:1e357d4e-4fb5-578f-8bb0-a5f4a840a062", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:b494e2c9-a390-57b3-907a-cc779a6f74c3", "form_id": "frm:c9e96846-df0b-585c-96ab-574f9778fad6", "gender": "unknown", "language": "en" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
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:b4d9a6c4-fa3d-523f-bf82-9f69bf81f2ff", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:f05ff872-22be-54d8-9525-08e95cc8031a", "form_id": "frm:c9e96846-df0b-585c-96ab-574f9778fad6", "gender": "unknown", "language": "nl" } 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:bc9a6e37-0d4c-5d19-9a53-3fa5e2202394", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:798e8dbe-4936-5dde-8082-6954d0b1a1f3", "form_id": "frm:c9e96846-df0b-585c-96ab-574f9778fad6", "gender": "unisex", "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:868597f5-270c-5a57-8b13-c31783645dd0", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:1e16eb61-e657-528e-89fd-58cfdc563d54", "form_id": "frm:c9e96846-df0b-585c-96ab-574f9778fad6", "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
Shirley	Shirly	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:46eed0cf-0dde-571f-a415-0a8269204dac", "from_form_id": "frm:c9e96846-df0b-585c-96ab-574f9778fad6", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:8d1dc5da-9bd4-5bf7-975b-3388a8228e32", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:1b97a5ae-5bc4-5c9f-8ea3-0a3cb42d048b" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

From

Type

Evidence

Shirley

Shirly

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:46eed0cf-0dde-571f-a415-0a8269204dac",
    "from_form_id": "frm:c9e96846-df0b-585c-96ab-574f9778fad6",
    "language": null,
    "link_id": "lnk:8d1dc5da-9bd4-5bf7-975b-3388a8228e32",
    "position": null,
    "relation": "source_equivalence",
    "scheme": null,
    "to_form_id": "frm:1b97a5ae-5bc4-5c9f-8ea3-0a3cb42d048b"
}

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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	Female	Not available	133
England and Wales	2025	Female	Not available	5
Cologne	2010	Female	Not available	2
Cologne	2017	Female	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": 133,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2151392
        ],
        "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": 5,
        "published_rank": 4201,
        "rank_quality": "source_rank_disagrees_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            53005
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:1e16eb61-e657-528e-89fd-58cfdc563d54",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 2,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "resolved_text": "Shirley",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            1707
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:cb41ca6c-39d7-530c-814f-3d6249db7501",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "source_text": "Shirley",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2010
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:72ec950e-3753-5a14-9d45-66573fe3a6b2",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "resolved_text": "Shirley",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            43267
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:d0106e75-03e4-58af-abd7-b78f258e834b",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "source_text": "Shirley",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2017
    }
]

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Usage context: English · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Dutch · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Not specified · Source classification

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Usage context: Not specified · Female · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2010 · Female · count: 2 · name position: not specified

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Provenance of the record «Shirley»

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Relationship «Shirley → Shirly»: Source-reported equivalence

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

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:8b665f7a-224a-59ce-8703-b98d9f1fd762",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:c9e96846-df0b-585c-96ab-574f9778fad6",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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