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Shy
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
Girls
In 2025
#12,988 for girls
Peak
1997, #3,610
Since 1880
478 babies
On licences
36 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Shy was given to 7 girls in 2025, ranking 12,988th for the year. It peaked in 1997, when it ranked 3,610th and went to 32 babies. It has appeared in 40 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 4,184 places since 2020. It is also on 36 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,705th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Shy, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Shy 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.