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Alister

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name3 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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Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#1,648 for boys

Peak

2022, #1,340

Since 1880

1,566 babies

On licences

1 dog in New York

Charting: Alister

Figure 1. Human babies named Alister, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Alister was given to 102 boys in 2024, ranking 1,648th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 1,340th and went to 140 babies. It has appeared in 41 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 24,544th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Alister, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Alister 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

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.