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Carbon

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 syllables1 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.

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Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#10,036 for boys

Peak

2020, #5,749

Since 1880

76 babies

On licences

7 dogs in New York

Charting: Carbon

Figure 1. Human babies named Carbon, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Carbon was given to 7 boys in 2024, ranking 10,036th for the year. It peaked in 2020, when it ranked 5,749th and went to 15 babies. It has appeared in 10 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 7 dog licences in New York City, ranked 8,810th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Carbon, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Carbon 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

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.