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Can
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
#7,276 for boys
Peak
2018, #3,616
Since 1880
554 babies
What the numbers say
Can was given to 11 boys in 2025, ranking 7,276th for the year. It peaked in 2018, when it ranked 3,616th and went to 30 babies. It has appeared in 43 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 334 places since 2020.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Can, for a fleet with a birth year.
Villain probability, by sound
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Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.
On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Can 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
Our editors write full entries for names with an agent history. This one has the figures.
As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.