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Alphonse
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name3 syllables3 tokens
Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2024
#2,437 for boys
Peak
1913, #277
Since 1880
10,536 babies
On licences
20 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Alphonse was given to 56 boys in 2024, ranking 2,437th for the year. It peaked in 1913, when it ranked 277th and went to 197 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has climbed 1,281 places since 2019. It is also on 20 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,987th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Alphonse, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Alphonse 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.