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Bernie

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.

Register Bernie

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#5,453 for boys

Peak

1907, #512

Since 1880

10,752 babies

On licences

384 dogs in New York

Charting: Bernie

Figure 1. Human babies named Bernie, per million births of boys, 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

Bernie was given to 17 boys in 2024, ranking 5,453rd for the year. It peaked in 1907, when it ranked 512th and went to 21 babies. It has appeared in 144 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 5,506 places since 2019. It is also on 384 dog licences in New York City, ranked 336th among dogs there, and on 19 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Bernie 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.