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Shannon
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables2 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
#2,405 for girls
Peak
1976, #17
Since 1880
348,161 babies
On licences
26 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shannon was given to 75 girls in 2025, ranking 2,405th for the year. It peaked in 1976, when it ranked 17th and went to 13,368 babies. It has appeared in 122 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 449 places since 2020. It is also on 26 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,438th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shannon, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shannon 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.