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Bill
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable1 token
Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#5,235 for boys
Peak
1934, #59
Since 1880
161,190 babies
On licences
64 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Bill was given to 18 boys in 2025, ranking 5,235th for the year. It peaked in 1934, when it ranked 59th and went to 3,534 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 1,575 places since 2020. It is also on 64 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,703rd among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Bill, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Bill 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.