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Melissa
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name3 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.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2024
#378 for girls
Peak
1979, #2
Since 1880
761,881 babies
On licences
16 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Melissa was given to 825 girls in 2024, ranking 378th for the year. It peaked in 1979, when it ranked 2nd and went to 34,050 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 16 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,793rd among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Melissa, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Melissa yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.
Sources
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.