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Samaritan

Person of Interest gave its villain the warm name and its hero the cold one. Parents should note the inversion.

Table 1. Samaritan, as recorded
ClassificationClass 6, Of concern
Speciesnetwork
PronunciationAs written
OriginObscure
Meaning–
Syllables4
Length in tokens3 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 Samaritan. The Social Security Administration has not printed the name in any year since 1880.

Charting: Samaritan

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Samaritan
No human has been named Samaritan 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.

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

93%

Basis: the canon. Yes (research/03).

By sound alone it would score 60%. The canon knows better.

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/03)
  2. Behind the Name. The origin, meaning, and pronunciation.
  3. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
  4. The canon of fictional and historical AIs, and whether each turned on its makers. (research/03-fictional-and-historical-ai-names.md)
  5. The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)