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Melisa

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

Human name3 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.

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Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#3,064 for girls

Peak

1973, #342

Since 1880

19,064 babies

Charting: Melisa

Figure 1. Human babies named Melisa, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002024219438peak 1973 · #342
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

Melisa was given to 53 girls in 2024, ranking 3,064th for the year. It peaked in 1973, when it ranked 342nd and went to 638 babies. It has appeared in 77 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 442 places since 2019.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Melisa 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.