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Data Exports
- names-full.csv - everything: name, origin family, origin detail, gender, meaning, variants. Also TSV and JSON.
- names-gender.csv - name and gender.
- names-variants.csv - name and alternate spellings, for names that have them.
- names-meanings.csv - name and meaning, where one is recorded.
- names-origins.csv - name, origin family and narrower origin, kept in separate columns.
- named.txt - the five-column tab-separated file, at the address it has always had.
- named-raw.txt - the unrepaired export, kept for provenance. CHANGES.txt lists every repair made to it.
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About the data
If I recall correctly, this dataset started in multiple notebooks in Wisconsin ca. 1985-1990 - which was originally loaded into a hypercard stack, and then converted to FileMaker before its debut on the web in 1997. You're welcome.