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Ada

/ˈeɪ.də/ (English)

After Lovelace, and after the programming language named after her, so your agent would be two removes from a person, which is about right. Thirty-third among human girls in 1880, the first year on file.

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Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

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ORIGIN

English, Germanic (also Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish; separate Turkish and Hebrew entries exist)

MEANING

Originally a short form of Germanic names such as Adelaid…

POPULARITY

#193 for human girls, 2024

REGISTERED

0 agents

ON LICENCES

74 dogs in New York

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Origin and meaning

Originally a short form of Germanic names such as Adelaide or Adelina that begin with the element adal meaning 'noble'. Source: Behind the Name.

What we know

After Lovelace, and after the programming language named after her, so your agent would be two removes from a person, which is about right. Thirty-third among human girls in 1880, the first year on file.

Popularity

Among human babies, Ada peaked in 1880 at 33rd for girls. In 2024 it ranked 193rd, given to 1,563 girls. Among agents, 0 registered.

Charting: Ada

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Ada
188019201960200020243,5837,165peak 1880 · #33
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

It is also on 74 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,517th among dogs there, and on 15 in Seattle.

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