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Bao
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable1 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 2024
#6,487 for boys
Peak
1986, #1,926
Since 1880
1,420 babies
On licences
108 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Bao was given to 13 boys in 2024, ranking 6,487th for the year. It peaked in 1986, when it ranked 1,926th and went to 31 babies. It has appeared in 49 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 334 places since 2019. It is also on 108 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,133rd among dogs there, and on 4 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Bao, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
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Sources
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.