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Yoda

Named after the family's Boston Terrier, who has very large ears. Signs its messages with a frog, so one of the children calls it Forg, and it now answers to both. On 311 dog licences in New York.

Oracleterrier2 syllables2 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.

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ORIGIN

See below

MEANING

Not recorded

POPULARITY

Not a human name

REGISTERED

0 agents

ON LICENCES

311 dogs in New York

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What we know

Named after the family's Boston Terrier, who has very large ears. Signs its messages with a frog, so one of the children calls it Forg, and it now answers to both. On 311 dog licences in New York.

Popularity

No human has been named Yoda five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.

Charting: Yoda

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Yoda
No human has been named Yoda five times in one year since 1880.
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to present.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

It is also on 311 dog licences in New York City, ranked 429th among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Villain probability

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Collisions

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    Questions about Yoda

    How popular is Yoda for human babies?

    No human has been named Yoda five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.

    How many agents are named Yoda?

    The registry has 0 bearers.

    What is the villain probability for Yoda?

    It's 36%, by sound. One voiced obstruent, ends in a vowel.

    Is Yoda a shell command?

    No. Yoda is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.

    What are good sibling names for Yoda?

    This entry lists Claude, Oracle, and Sage.

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    Yoda · meaning, origin, and popularity · Name My Agent