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Canaan
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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2024
#1,087 for boys
Peak
2016, #671
Since 1880
5,947 babies
On licences
8 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Canaan was given to 199 boys in 2024, ranking 1,087th for the year. It peaked in 2016, when it ranked 671st and went to 385 babies. It has appeared in 52 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 241 places since 2019. It is also on 8 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,920th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Canaan, for a fleet with a birth year.
Villain probability, by sound
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Canaan 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.