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So, there's this name that I guess is a form of Christopher or Christoph, but it's spelled Christop, and I noticed that it had this giant jump in 1989 on the popularity list, before disappearing again and never coming back. Why is that? What is this name? Was it from a movie or something?
This message was edited 9/18/2020, 5:47 PM
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I don't know, but I find it very unattractive. What an Ugly Name!
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What elbowin said, it was an error with New York's name counting that year.
If you look at the chart for 1989, you'll also see
Alexande [Alexander]
Alexandr [Alexandra]
Stephani [Stephanie]
Christin [Christine/Christina-- this spelling was used as a name too but had a sharp increase in 1989 and dropped the next year because of the error]
Elizabet [Elizabeth]
Katherin [Katherine]
Or you can just look at this
https://www.behindthename.com/name/alexande/top?compare=alexandr+stephani+elizabet+katherin
If you look at the chart for 1989, you'll also see
Alexande [Alexander]
Alexandr [Alexandra]
Stephani [Stephanie]
Christin [Christine/Christina-- this spelling was used as a name too but had a sharp increase in 1989 and dropped the next year because of the error]
Elizabet [Elizabeth]
Katherin [Katherine]
Or you can just look at this
https://www.behindthename.com/name/alexande/top?compare=alexandr+stephani+elizabet+katherin
This message was edited 9/19/2020, 12:44 PM
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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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