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Shelly
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 2024
#4,633 for girls
Peak
1966, #89
Since 1880
86,588 babies
On licences
75 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shelly was given to 30 girls in 2024, ranking 4,633rd for the year. It peaked in 1966, when it ranked 89th and went to 3,856 babies. It has appeared in 131 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 75 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,512th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shelly, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shelly 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.