Ghana

Ghana — Safaliba school-register first-name chart, analysed October 2022 · Reformatted factual-order reuse assessment (inference); no publisher open licence verified

Who is counted

Figure 6.2, printed page 137 / physical PDF page 150, reports selected frequent first names in the study's school-register corpus. Table 6.5 reports 974 first-name records; these are not confirmed unique people or births. The ethnographic study purposively selected Mandari, Gbenfu, Manfuli and Tangyiri in Bole District. Main fieldwork was April 2020–January 2021; the chart explicitly dates analysis to October 2022. Register entry years, exact school selection and deduplication are not separately established. The 2022 index identifies the stated analysis snapshot, not a 2022 birth or enrolment cohort.

Rounding

The figure prints percentages to one decimal place and no individual integer counts. Counts remain null; percentages are not multiplied by 974, interpolated from pixels or combined with health-register data to manufacture counts or denominators.

Unpublished counts

Four names in equal printed-percentage groups are quarantined: Alhassan/Rashida at 1.1%, Abdul-Razack/Afishata at 1.0%. These are rounded-share ambiguities, not suppressed zeroes or established exact-count ties.

Ranking

Positions 1–7 among the first-name chart's displayed names, whose printed percentages strictly descend from 3.0% to 1.2%. No exact order is assigned within equal rounded-share groups. These are within-chart ordinal positions, not a verified complete national or regional population ranking.

Spelling policy

Retain printed Latin-script names exactly, including Ayisha and Yussif; no assumed canonical spelling, transliteration, language, religion or sex is attached to a name. T denotes the unsplit source category, not unisex usage.