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Shay
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 2024
#1,158 for girls
Peak
2022, #914
Since 1880
12,989 babies
On licences
117 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shay was given to 208 girls in 2024, ranking 1,158th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 914th and went to 301 babies. It has appeared in 73 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 117 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,075th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shay, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shay 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.