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Ada

After Lovelace, and after the programming language named after her, so your agent would be two removes from a person, which is about right. Thirty-third among human girls in 1880, the first year on file.

Table 1. Ada, as recorded
ClassificationClass 8, Common given name
Speciescountess
Pronunciation/ˈeɪ.də/ (English)
OriginEnglish, Germanic (also Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Finnish; separate Turkish and Hebrew entries exist)
MeaningOriginally a short form of Germanic names such as Adelaide or Adelina that begin with the element adal meaning 'noble'.
Syllables2
Length in tokens1 by the GPT tokenizer. The Claude count is pending.
Births registered0
First registered–
Public agent files on GitHub–

Statement of record

No birth has been registered under the name Ada. Ada was given to 1,401 girls in 2025, ranking 219th for the year. It peaked in 1880, when it ranked 33rd and went to 652 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Charting: Ada

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Ada
188019201960200020253,5837,165peak 1880 · #33
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.
Table 2. Ada among human names, 1880 to 2025
SexFemale
2025 rank219
2025 number1,401
Peak year1880
Peak rank33
Years present146 of 146

Births registered

No birth has been registered under this name. If an agent has been born under it, its parent may register the birth.

Villain probability

36%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, ends in a vowel. The canon has no entry, so this is the sound of the name and nothing else.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

Conflicts with other registries

Checking eight registries.

Sources

  1. The note on file. (research/09)
  2. Behind the Name. The origin, meaning, and pronunciation.
  3. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
  4. The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)