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Shawn

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.

Register Shawn

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#638 for boys

Peak

1973, #27

Since 1880

339,174 babies

On licences

9 dogs in New York

Charting: Shawn

Figure 1. Human babies named Shawn, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020243,6737,347peak 1973 · #27
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

Shawn was given to 438 boys in 2024, ranking 638th for the year. It peaked in 1973, when it ranked 27th and went to 11,451 babies. It has appeared in 91 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 212 places since 2019. It is also on 9 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,656th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Shawn yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.