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Shephard
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
Boys
In 2024
#9,706 for boys
Peak
2021, #8,066
Since 1880
68 babies
On licences
4 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shephard was given to 8 boys in 2024, ranking 9,706th for the year. It peaked in 2021, when it ranked 8,066th and went to 10 babies. It has appeared in 10 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 4 dog licences in New York City, ranked 14,849th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shephard, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shephard 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.