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Barney
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 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
#9,997 for boys
Peak
1898, #204
Since 1880
16,176 babies
On licences
395 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Barney was given to 7 boys in 2024, ranking 9,997th for the year. It peaked in 1898, when it ranked 204th and went to 73 babies. It has appeared in 133 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 2,374 places since 2019. It is also on 395 dog licences in New York City, ranked 319th among dogs there, and on 13 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Barney, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Barney 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.