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Birth year guides profile selection. The nearest available era may be shown when there is no profile covering that year.
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Gender Prior
Mostly, strongly and very strongly choose progressively higher female or male usage weights. Balanced / mixed keeps profiles with substantial weight on both.
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Choosing a Tendency
Gender prior describes the female and male usage weights in the selected name profile. It is guidance for browsing names, not a statement about the sex or gender of a person who has that name.
Mostly uses a minimum weight of 0.5, Strongly 0.7, and Very strongly 0.9. Balanced / mixed requires at least 0.35 on each side. Any removes this filter and can include names without a profile.
The short label in a result uses its own broad categories: strong female prior, strong male prior, mixed prior or No profile. It need not repeat the exact filter wording you chose.
For a name intended to feel less strongly associated with either category, try Balanced / mixed and inspect the locale and era as well.
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Name Commonness
Higher commonness choices narrow results to profiles with higher usage weights; the score is not a population percentage.
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Locale influences the usage profile shown for each name; it does not assign a nationality or background to your character.
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Results show one selected reference profile per name. Scores and missing profiles should be interpreted in the context of the available data.
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Name type distinguishes base forms, independent names, diminutives, nicknames and variants in the reference library.
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