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Alpha

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 Alpha

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#2,039 for boys

Peak

1899, #319

Since 1880

9,967 babies

On licences

98 dogs in New York

Charting: Alpha

Figure 1. Human babies named Alpha, per million births of girls, 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

Alpha was given to 74 boys in 2024, ranking 2,039th for the year. It peaked in 1899, when it ranked 319th and went to 88 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 98 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,221st among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Alpha 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.