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Brad

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.

Register Brad

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#4,074 for boys

Peak

1975, #98

Since 1880

83,275 babies

On licences

31 dogs in New York

Charting: Brad

Figure 1. Human babies named Brad, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020248361,672peak 1975 · #98
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

Brad was given to 26 boys in 2024, ranking 4,074th for the year. It peaked in 1975, when it ranked 98th and went to 2,610 babies. It has appeared in 105 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 1,076 places since 2019. It is also on 31 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,999th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Brad 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.