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Branch
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
#3,216 for boys
Peak
1889, #806
Since 1880
1,030 babies
On licences
4 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Branch was given to 37 boys in 2024, ranking 3,216th for the year. It peaked in 1889, when it ranked 806th and went to 7 babies. It has appeared in 59 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 1,346 places since 2019. It is also on 4 dog licences in New York City, ranked 13,202nd among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Branch, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Branch 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.