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Gordon

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Script: Latin
Compound status: Unknown
In this record: Relationships: 4 · observations: 7

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Language information

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Dictionary contexts

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Other contexts

Language	Gender in source	Basis	Evidence
Polish	Not specified	Usage evidence	Evidence Language: Polish. 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:225413d0-3131-5724-9edf-a7dc2b5c3c52", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:4079f500-1845-5756-950b-1a41c60354ab", "form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "gender": "unknown", "language": "pl" } 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:78edbc2e-d763-5002-81bc-6d74ba1577ef", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:5ea988dc-5eb2-5267-aaf3-adc2fff8c128", "form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "gender": "male", "language": null } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
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:bc0b785d-bcc1-5760-a432-0c03a48d59b0", "country": null, "evidence_id": "ev:4288c87f-8906-500c-a068-1829a2c2478c", "form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "gender": "unknown", "language": "en" } 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:9fdc74b8-8b92-55cd-9a1b-8e7489396aae", "country": "DE", "evidence_id": "ev:d7e9bd92-d161-5fe5-ae14-9f6d4234d622", "form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "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: 4

From	To	Type	Evidence
Gordon	Gurdon	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:0804055f-cb6e-5e14-9abb-4afe52470d3f", "from_form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:b9f05fbe-4b5d-5e81-aa73-6a97fd35dfdb", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:a741829a-b4f4-59e2-9630-ba66714256aa" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Gordon	Gord	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:0b2d843d-d078-5568-ba59-e3052823a2c6", "from_form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:ef53b685-9102-5b7d-ab47-bb8210bda4af", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:406cfdad-359f-5f21-8d45-7067d6586369" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Gordon	Gordo	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:fad9d80e-9f0e-5c2e-bbfd-28b0d409ddd8", "from_form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:67198ec7-d6d1-5708-9c4c-9177eea3cc0a", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:b80eec0f-a947-51b1-9a93-fdba4acf9f1d" } All claims and sources — go to this entry →
Gordon	Gordian	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:4a7e2b3f-9574-55de-b6bf-1cbde4745dc8", "from_form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc", "language": null, "link_id": "lnk:98056d4e-31b4-5f8b-8bc0-1f75fe33bc9f", "position": null, "relation": "source_equivalence", "scheme": null, "to_form_id": "frm:5d210a2d-628d-5ebe-ab19-bd15fd559593" } 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: 7

Territory	Year	Category	Name position	Count
United States	2025	Male	Not available	209
Germany	2023	Male	Not available	2
England and Wales	2025	Male	Not available	3
Cologne	2010	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2018	Male	Not available	1
Cologne	2019	Male	1	1
Cologne	2020	Male	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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        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 209,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
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        ],
        "source_ref": "US",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "deterministic_sum_of_source_counts",
        "published_count": 2,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
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        ],
        "source_ref": "DE",
        "year": 2023
    },
    {
        "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": 3,
        "published_rank": 5137,
        "rank_quality": "source_rank_disagrees_with_published_counts",
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "source_csv_rows": [
            24892
        ],
        "source_ref": "GB",
        "year": 2025
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:d7e9bd92-d161-5fe5-ae14-9f6d4234d622",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": null,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "resolved_text": "Gordon",
        "scope_note": "position_absent_repeated_keys_not_aggregated",
        "source_csv_rows": [
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        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:338d7004-6f31-54af-9eb1-784d5dbe83c5",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Gordon",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2010
    },
    {
        "aggregation_allowed": false,
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:ccd8dbea-30e5-599c-8c9a-3b2486a97472",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
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        "published_rank": null,
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        "resolved_text": "Gordon",
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        "source_csv_rows": [
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        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:c51d61fa-acb1-5038-8735-f44c887f2a15",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN_HISTORY",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "source_text": "Gordon",
        "text_method": "NFC",
        "unit": "published_name_count_position_unspecified",
        "year": 2018
    },
    {
        "country": "DE",
        "evidence_id": "ev:787135bc-a1e0-5b1c-ab7e-be2654ce67fb",
        "geography": "Köln",
        "global_name_gender_inferred": false,
        "method": "source_reported",
        "name_position": 1,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
        "reported_sex": "male",
        "scope_note": "source_description_position_conflict",
        "source_csv_rows": [
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        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:b5bea1e9-92be-5e91-af91-41bcefeeb290",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "unit": "published_name_occurrences_at_position",
        "year": 2019
    },
    {
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        "name_position": 2,
        "published_count": 1,
        "published_rank": null,
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        "source_csv_rows": [
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        ],
        "source_observation_id": "obs:76cf83ed-1860-5aed-9ab3-bc3e00dce753",
        "source_ref": "DE_KOELN",
        "source_reported_sex": "m",
        "unit": "published_name_occurrences_at_position",
        "year": 2020
    }
]

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Usage context: Polish · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Source classification

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Usage context: English · Not specified · Usage evidence

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Usage context: Not specified · Male · Birth statistics; Statistics: Cologne · 2010 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Provenance of the record «Gordon»

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Relationship «Gordon → Gurdon»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Gordon → Gord»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Gordon → Gordo»: Source-reported equivalence

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Relationship «Gordon → Gordian»: Source-reported equivalence

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Statistics: Cologne · 2018 · Male · count: 1 · name position: not specified

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Statistics: Cologne · 2019 · Male · count: 1 · name position: 1

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Statistics: Cologne · 2020 · Male · count: 1 · name position: 2

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Field and compound-status provenance

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    "field_evidence": [
        {
            "characters": " -‐‑–'’",
            "evidence_id": "ev:cb5ff069-a729-55d6-81d9-7fdeed401071",
            "field": "contains_name_separator",
            "form_id": "frm:f85d337f-a0ee-51c0-b200-66cc0aafe7fc",
            "method": "deterministic",
            "not_compound_classification": true,
            "rule": "character-presence-001",
            "value": false
        }
    ],
    "compound_claims": []
}

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