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Boyd

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name1 syllable2 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.

Register Boyd

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,207 for boys

Peak

1899, #228

Since 1880

27,670 babies

On licences

17 dogs in New York

Charting: Boyd

Figure 1. Human babies named Boyd, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Boyd was given to 65 boys in 2024, ranking 2,207th for the year. It peaked in 1899, when it ranked 228th and went to 53 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 548 places since 2019. It is also on 17 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,496th among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Boyd, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Boyd 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

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.