Hello,
I have now highly expanded my thread-starting post, because of the many replies made to it, not the least useful of which was ALS's several searches providing absolute (vs. relative) hit counts. You may well be interested in the many new insights one can gain.
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Originally Posted by deanej
I remember when US states had enough results to show graphs (and West Point was the Alizée capital of the US). That was years ago, though.
The current dominance of Texas and California is probably due to immigration from Mexico.
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Here are the results from California using the prénom alone without the diacritrical mark:
Alizee (California only)
Spanish, and even French, massively overwhelm English. Texas does not have enough volume to make a comparable language study possible today.