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Bay

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.

Register Bay

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#6,954 for girls

Peak

2014, #2,419

Since 1880

719 babies

On licences

29 dogs in New York

Charting: Bay

Figure 1. Human babies named Bay, 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

Bay was given to 16 girls in 2024, ranking 6,954th for the year. It peaked in 2014, when it ranked 2,419th and went to 75 babies. It has appeared in 38 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 458 places since 2019. It is also on 29 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,119th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Bay 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.