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Bradford

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.

Register Bradford

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,994 for boys

Peak

1953, #240

Since 1880

32,081 babies

On licences

3 dogs in New York

Charting: Bradford

Figure 1. Human babies named Bradford, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002024198395peak 1953 · #240
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

Bradford was given to 41 boys in 2024, ranking 2,994th for the year. It peaked in 1953, when it ranked 240th and went to 780 babies. It has appeared in 135 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 331 places since 2019. It is also on 3 dog licences in New York City, ranked 15,658th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Bradford 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.