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Bernard
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
#1,318 for boys
Peak
1921, #45
Since 1880
200,931 babies
On licences
60 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Bernard was given to 147 boys in 2024, ranking 1,318th for the year. It peaked in 1921, when it ranked 45th and went to 4,485 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 60 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,796th among dogs there, and on 5 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Bernard, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Bernard 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.