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Nylah

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

Human name2 syllables3 tokens

Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Register Nylah

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#452 for girls

Peak

2019, #364

Since 1880

13,141 babies

On licences

25 dogs in New York

Charting: Nylah

Figure 1. Human babies named Nylah, 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

Nylah was given to 693 girls in 2024, ranking 452nd for the year. It peaked in 2019, when it ranked 364th and went to 869 babies. It has appeared in 31 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 25 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,520th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Nylah yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.