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Help[Facts] Re: The French populariy statistics
in reply to a message by Perrine
Until about 2 or 3 years ago French given name statistics were, frankly spoken, a mess.
As far as I know there aren't many names that are present and actually used in two variants in France, one with accent and one without: Usually it's quite clear and well defined how the name is written. But there were a lot of websites who gave the names without accents.
Furthermore, a lot of the "hitparades" that could be found were inofficial, of uncertain origin, and of uncertain quality.
Now it's better because finally there is an *official* source. For many years back, with data for hundreds of names for each year, and properly written. You find it here: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004
(Of course this official source exists already for decades, but became public only recently.)
As far as I know there aren't many names that are present and actually used in two variants in France, one with accent and one without: Usually it's quite clear and well defined how the name is written. But there were a lot of websites who gave the names without accents.
Furthermore, a lot of the "hitparades" that could be found were inofficial, of uncertain origin, and of uncertain quality.
Now it's better because finally there is an *official* source. For many years back, with data for hundreds of names for each year, and properly written. You find it here: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004
(Of course this official source exists already for decades, but became public only recently.)
This message was edited 1/16/2019, 8:50 AM
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