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Billy
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables1 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 2024
#1,047 for boys
Peak
1934, #20
Since 1880
389,442 babies
On licences
432 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Billy was given to 210 boys in 2024, ranking 1,047th for the year. It peaked in 1934, when it ranked 20th and went to 9,562 babies. It has appeared in 144 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 432 dog licences in New York City, ranked 283rd among dogs there, and on 14 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Billy, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Billy 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.