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Allen

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.

Register Allen

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#573 for boys

Peak

1947, #73

Since 1880

273,148 babies

On licences

22 dogs in New York

Charting: Allen

Figure 1. Human babies named Allen, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020241,3872,774peak 1947 · #73
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

Allen was given to 497 boys in 2024, ranking 573rd for the year. It peaked in 1947, when it ranked 73rd and went to 5,075 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 22 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,745th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Allen yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.