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Persephone

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

Human name4 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 Persephone

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#737 for girls

Peak

2022, #685

Since 1880

4,583 babies

On licences

65 dogs in New York

Charting: Persephone

Figure 1. Human babies named Persephone, 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

Persephone was given to 381 girls in 2024, ranking 737th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 685th and went to 428 babies. It has appeared in 59 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 65 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,697th among dogs there, and on 4 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Persephone 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.