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Bell
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
Girls
In 2025
#11,097 for girls
Peak
1884, #275
Since 1880
2,626 babies
On licences
52 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Bell was given to 8 girls in 2025, ranking 11,097th for the year. It peaked in 1884, when it ranked 275th and went to 50 babies. It has appeared in 102 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,258 places since 2020. It is also on 52 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,011th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Bell, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Bell 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.