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Barnabas
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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2024
#4,571 for boys
Peak
2017, #4,234
Since 1880
575 babies
On licences
8 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Barnabas was given to 22 boys in 2024, ranking 4,571st for the year. It peaked in 2017, when it ranked 4,234th and went to 24 babies. It has appeared in 60 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 799 places since 2019. It is also on 8 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,858th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Barnabas, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Barnabas 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.