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Alta

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 syllables1 token

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

Register Alta

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#5,949 for girls

Peak

1894, #144

Since 1880

29,015 babies

On licences

9 dogs in New York

Charting: Alta

Figure 1. Human babies named Alta, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020246681,337peak 1894 · #144
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.

What the numbers say

Alta was given to 20 girls in 2024, ranking 5,949th for the year. It peaked in 1894, when it ranked 144th and went to 298 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 1,399 places since 2019. It is also on 9 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,032nd among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Alta, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

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Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.