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ArchivesRe: What is up with the name Christop?
in reply to a message by EncyclopediaBrown
It is not a name. It is Christoph(er) truncated to 8 characters due to a bug in data processing and this bug specifically occurred in New York.
It was discovered and published by Nancy Man and published in her blog here:
http://www.nancy.cc/2007/11/08/the-great-baby-name-glitch-of-1989-christop-alexandr-elizabet/
It was discovered and published by Nancy Man and published in her blog here:
http://www.nancy.cc/2007/11/08/the-great-baby-name-glitch-of-1989-christop-alexandr-elizabet/
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Wow! Interesting. I thought it seemed weird. I sure hope all these people changed their names eventually. Did they have to use these non-names on paperwork and such for a while? Were these their legal names? Or it's just what ended up being sent to the social security registry?
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Their birth certificates and Social Security cards still said Christopher (or any of the other names I mentioned in my comment). It's just an error in the data.
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