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Shasta

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.

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Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#9,427 for girls

Peak

1978, #700

Since 1880

4,335 babies

On licences

21 dogs in New York

Charting: Shasta

Figure 1. Human babies named Shasta, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
1880192019602000202474148peak 1978 · #700
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

Shasta was given to 11 girls in 2024, ranking 9,427th for the year. It peaked in 1978, when it ranked 700th and went to 227 babies. It has appeared in 77 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 895 places since 2019. It is also on 21 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,960th among dogs there, and on 11 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Shasta 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.