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Samantha

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.

Register Samantha

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#127 for girls

Peak

1991, #5

Since 1880

592,059 babies

On licences

511 dogs in New York

Charting: Samantha

Figure 1. Human babies named Samantha, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020246,84013,679peak 1991 · #5
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

Samantha was given to 2,221 girls in 2024, ranking 127th for the year. It peaked in 1991, when it ranked 5th and went to 25,648 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 511 dog licences in New York City, ranked 233rd among dogs there, and on 6 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Samantha 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.