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Able
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables1 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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#5,046 for boys
Peak
2014, #2,661
Since 1880
1,115 babies
On licences
5 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Able was given to 19 boys in 2025, ranking 5,046th for the year. It peaked in 2014, when it ranked 2,661st and went to 45 babies. It has appeared in 80 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,475 places since 2020. It is also on 5 dog licences in New York City, ranked 11,310th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Able, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Able 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.