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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.
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.
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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