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Benji
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
#1,627 for boys
Peak
1975, #623
Since 1880
2,205 babies
On licences
2,035 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Benji was given to 104 boys in 2024, ranking 1,627th for the year. It peaked in 1975, when it ranked 623rd and went to 168 babies. It has appeared in 71 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 313 places since 2019. It is also on 2,035 dog licences in New York City, ranked 40th among dogs there, and on 27 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Benji, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Benji 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.