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Mel

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 4 · observations: 5

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	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:91d23a9e-55f1-5b67-be14-c69bd90d9a21", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:79f26ef4-55ee-5085-89ce-75e500aee26f", "form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46", "gender": "unisex", "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:aba47758-a7a2-5677-bcd3-2a99690a8318", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:d5d1e20c-562d-526d-99fa-6cca43666e0c", "form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46", "gender": "male", "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:3398f078-4cdd-5152-b5c3-3e973bce5cb6", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:812c9c59-35f6-55e2-b394-dfbfed982876", "form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46", "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: 4

From	To	Type	Evidence
Mel	Mal	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:0dc46c1d-e142-5f71-bdfa-ca2f71f6f915", "from_form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:3be262aa-e22c-517d-9570-42a061acf097", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:0db6cd99-035c-518c-b377-3db8b7fb4756" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Mel	Melvin	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:0be21c79-ec59-530d-8b71-d5db8c4ecced", "from_form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:5f341e06-0a06-5e03-b984-dfe5dbbfe4d7", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:07bac3a1-6219-5876-9121-8e41e1d032a5" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Mel	Mell	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:2ffe820b-4f50-5057-b982-56c885548f21", "from_form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:1c01bfda-1a35-5c59-9d74-efff52e50b8b", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:1043e0d4-bc5e-5cae-b072-b7cd8c34c8df" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Mel	Melo	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:9c9d7225-c130-573b-82bc-13d9a7248491", "from_form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:9c4bc348-3ea5-56fb-88c6-57c9ddd5f3c6", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:a94c4d79-ee45-5c0b-9323-4d451546a783" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →

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	16
United States	2025	Male	Not available	11
Cologne	2011	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2015	Female	Not available	1
Cologne	2021	Female	2	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

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    {
        "country": "US",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 16,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2156837
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "US",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 11,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            2174611
        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:d5d1e20c-562d-526d-99fa-6cca43666e0c",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Mel",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            8859
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:3a6e2360-c594-516f-bbaa-b341add41621",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Mel",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2011
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:812c9c59-35f6-55e2-b394-dfbfed982876",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "resolved_text": "Mel",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            29686
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:87cc54e6-6884-5f1d-b8ce-3c26db572a8c",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "source_text": "Mel",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2015
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:51b4ddd0-6f2b-5017-93c7-2658a49734c1",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": 2,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "female",
        "scope_note": "source_description_position_conflict",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            19172
        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:e053693e-27ff-50f8-9003-7e4ac7487ee4",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "w",
        "unit": "published_name_occurrences_at_position",
        "year": 2021
    }
]

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Usage context: Not specified · Not specified · Source classification

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2011 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Usage context: Not specified · Female · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2015 · Female · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Provenance of the record «Mel»

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Relationship «Mel → Mal»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Mel → Melvin»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Mel → Mell»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Mel → Melo»: Source-reported equivalence

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

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Field and compound-status provenance

{
    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:1607873a-c09d-555d-adaa-4f4d84c83669",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:ddaa2c2c-ada1-50b0-894f-6321210bea46",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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