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Sho

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name1 syllable1 token

Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Register Sho

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#8,837 for boys

Peak

1990, #3,150

Since 1880

452 babies

On licences

1 dog in Seattle

Charting: Sho

Figure 1. Human babies named Sho, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Sho was given to 9 boys in 2024, ranking 8,837th for the year. It peaked in 1990, when it ranked 3,150th and went to 20 babies. It has appeared in 41 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 1,731 places since 2019.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Sho, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Sho 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

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.