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Santa

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

Human name2 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.

Register Santa

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#5,400 for girls

Peak

1915, #723

Since 1880

4,397 babies

On licences

34 dogs in New York

Charting: Santa

Figure 1. Human babies named Santa, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020244386peak 1915 · #723
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

Santa was given to 24 girls in 2024, ranking 5,400th for the year. It peaked in 1915, when it ranked 723rd and went to 85 babies. It has appeared in 125 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 6,852 places since 2019. It is also on 34 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,827th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Santa yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

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.