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Alexande is not an English name
by elbowin
11/30/2017, 6:51 AM
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/
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- Caprice
12/4/2017, 3:46 AM
Hmm, I once saw the mystical name Elisabe on a Swedish list. Guess it's not a mystery, then.
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- Laslow (Buneary)   +1
12/2/2017, 6:36 AM
There seems to have been a similar glitch on the Australian charts, hence Christia and Sebastia, which are supposed to be Christian and Sebastian.
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- elbowin
12/2/2017, 2:29 PM
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
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- Rachel Shaina (Evil)
11/30/2017, 10:20 AM
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.
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