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Bowie
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 and boys
In 2025
#1,228 for boys
Peak
2021, #952
Since 1880
3,520 babies
On licences
821 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Bowie was given to 164 boys in 2025, ranking 1,228th for the year. It peaked in 2021, when it ranked 952nd and went to 237 babies. It has appeared in 37 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It is also on 821 dog licences in New York City, ranked 141st among dogs there, and on 34 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Bowie, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Bowie 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.