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Shade
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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#7,595 for boys
Peak
1880, #737
Since 1880
2,025 babies
On licences
22 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shade was given to 11 boys in 2025, ranking 7,595th for the year. It peaked in 1880, when it ranked 737th and went to 8 babies. It has appeared in 92 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,360 places since 2020. It is also on 22 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,833rd among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shade, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shade 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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.