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Shep
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
Boys
In 2025
#4,234 for boys
Peak
1884, #956
Since 1880
235 babies
On licences
33 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shep was given to 25 boys in 2025, ranking 4,234th for the year. It peaked in 1884, when it ranked 956th and went to 6 babies. It has appeared in 18 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,423 places since 2020. It is also on 33 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,904th among dogs there, and on 5 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shep, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shep 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.