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Boss
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 2024
#9,072 for boys
Peak
1894, #570
Since 1880
444 babies
On licences
89 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Boss was given to 8 boys in 2024, ranking 9,072nd for the year. It peaked in 1894, when it ranked 570th and went to 13 babies. It has appeared in 52 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 2,933 places since 2019. It is also on 89 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,314th among dogs there, and on 6 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Boss, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Boss 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.