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Buck
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
#2,472 for boys
Peak
1910, #365
Since 1880
6,534 babies
On licences
101 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Buck was given to 55 boys in 2024, ranking 2,472nd for the year. It peaked in 1910, when it ranked 365th and went to 49 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has climbed 299 places since 2019. It is also on 101 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,201st among dogs there, and on 6 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Buck, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Buck 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.