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Shadow
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 2024
#6,393 for boys
Peak
1993, #2,202
Since 1880
1,089 babies
On licences
1,670 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shadow was given to 14 boys in 2024, ranking 6,393rd for the year. It peaked in 1993, when it ranked 2,202nd and went to 36 babies. It has appeared in 44 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 340 places since 2019. It is also on 1,670 dog licences in New York City, ranked 52nd among dogs there, and on 39 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shadow, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shadow 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.