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Cain
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 2025
#1,142 for boys
Peak
2014, #727
Since 1880
7,628 babies
On licences
21 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Cain was given to 185 boys in 2025, ranking 1,142nd for the year. It peaked in 2014, when it ranked 727th and went to 330 babies. It has appeared in 89 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 249 places since 2020. It is also on 21 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,877th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Cain, for a fleet with a birth year.
Villain probability, by sound
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Cain 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.