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Help[Facts] Alexande is not an English name
Despite its quite prominent spike in the SSA data, Alexande is not an American English name. It is a truncation of Alexander to 8 characters, due to some glitch in the data acquisition process in New York specifically.
For more information, see
http://www.nancy.cc/2007/11/08/the-great-baby-name-glitch-of-1989-christop-alexandr-elizabet/
For more information, see
http://www.nancy.cc/2007/11/08/the-great-baby-name-glitch-of-1989-christop-alexandr-elizabet/
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Hmm, I once saw the mystical name Elisabe on a Swedish list. Guess it's not a mystery, then.
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The strange thing is that Christopher is not truncated in the New South Wales data. Getting to the source pdf file ( http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/Documents/stats-names-2000s.pdf ) I see Christian and Sebastian there, so the error is either corrected by now or it happened during data ingest on this site.
--elbowin
--elbowin
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Considering half of that submitter's submissions have been deleted, I don't think he cares.
I did wonder what happened that year though, so good article.
I did wonder what happened that year though, so good article.
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