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Bennie
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables3 tokens
Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Girls and boys
In 2025
#2,782 for girls
Peak
1904, #134
Since 1880
62,689 babies
On licences
97 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Bennie was given to 61 girls in 2025, ranking 2,782nd for the year. It peaked in 1904, when it ranked 134th and went to 158 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 4,497 places since 2020. It is also on 97 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,236th among dogs there, and on 4 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Bennie, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Bennie 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.