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Shams
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable2 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.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2025
#3,635 for girls
Peak
2025, #3,635
Since 1880
448 babies
On licences
1 dog in New York
What the numbers say
Shams was given to 42 girls in 2025, ranking 3,635th for the year. It peaked in 2025, when it ranked 3,635th and went to 42 babies. It has appeared in 23 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,658 places since 2020. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 32,703rd among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shams, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shams 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.