Country of Association makes associated country statistics
available for names.
Description
You use this class to retrieve country of association (COA)
name data for a requested name. Associated country data is contained
in a list, per segment of the name. Frequency, confidence, and cross-country
significance values are provided for each associated country.
You
use this information to learn an indicative statistic about the prevalence
of the queried name in relation to a geographic region. Significance
provides an indication of how representative a name is of a country
in comparison to how representative it is of other countries. This
class is not meant to be used to determine the country of origin of
a specific individual.
Note: COA must preprocess
the names that you supply by removing extraneous characters or punctuation
that do not help to determine culture (such as initials) and some
common TAQs (such as Mr., Mlle or, JR.).