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Shayla
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables3 tokens
Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2025
#1,793 for girls
Peak
1999, #267
Since 1880
30,950 babies
On licences
26 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shayla was given to 113 girls in 2025, ranking 1,793rd for the year. It peaked in 1999, when it ranked 267th and went to 1,188 babies. It has appeared in 72 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 612 places since 2020. It is also on 26 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,439th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shayla, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shayla 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.