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Shirley
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 2024
#1,453 for girls
Peak
1935, #2
Since 1880
695,797 babies
On licences
92 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shirley was given to 151 girls in 2024, ranking 1,453rd for the year. It peaked in 1935, when it ranked 2nd and went to 42,365 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 92 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,292nd among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shirley, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shirley 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.