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Bessie

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 Bessie

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#9,630 for girls

Peak

1889, #9

Since 1880

170,860 babies

On licences

149 dogs in New York

Charting: Bessie

Figure 1. Human babies named Bessie, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020246,56813,136peak 1889 · #9
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

Bessie was given to 10 girls in 2024, ranking 9,630th for the year. It peaked in 1889, when it ranked 9th and went to 2,343 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 415 places since 2019. It is also on 149 dog licences in New York City, ranked 848th among dogs there, and on 6 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Bessie 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.