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Name "Joan Dubois" for a claimant from France #35

Closed Antoine-Zimmermann closed 1 year ago

Antoine-Zimmermann commented 1 year ago

The first name "Joan" is extremely rare in France, at least as a given name from birth. Since the beginning of the XXth century, it has been given 118 times in total in France, with a maximum of 9 times in 1982 and in 1984. Perhaps it is a confusion with the super common name "Jean" (equivalent of "John"), which although it is given less and less in France, is still considered the most common first name with more than a million people bearing it.

I suggest we change "Joan" into "Jean".

aidhog commented 1 year ago

Probably a mistake from Jeanne d'Arc, who is known as Joan of Arc in English.

Changed Joan to Jeanne (given that the other two are men) in HTML, PHP and LaTeX. (Not sure how popular the name Jeanne is but I think it shouldn't look out of place?)

Antoine-Zimmermann commented 1 year ago

Yes, "Jeanne" is fine. Much less popular than "Jean", but still hugely more popular than "Joan".