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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.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2024
#9,630 for girls
Peak
1889, #9
Since 1880
170,860 babies
On licences
149 dogs in New York
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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.