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Samaritan

Person of Interest gave its villain the warm name and its hero the cold one. Parents should note the inversion.

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ORIGIN

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MEANING

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POPULARITY

Not a human name

REGISTERED

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What we know

Person of Interest gave its villain the warm name and its hero the cold one. Parents should note the inversion.

Popularity

No human has been named Samaritan five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.

Charting: Samaritan

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Samaritan
No human has been named Samaritan five times in one year since 1880.
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to present.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

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Collisions

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