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Melba

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

Human name2 syllables2 tokens

Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Register Melba

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#11,750 for girls

Peak

1932, #207

Since 1880

34,918 babies

On licences

9 dogs in New York

Charting: Melba

Figure 1. Human babies named Melba, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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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

Melba was given to 8 girls in 2024, ranking 11,750th for the year. It peaked in 1932, when it ranked 207th and went to 873 babies. It has appeared in 120 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 9 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,463rd among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Melba yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

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.