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Carl

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.

Register Carl

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#1,033 for boys

Peak

1915, #22

Since 1880

507,825 babies

On licences

94 dogs in New York

Charting: Carl

Figure 1. Human babies named Carl, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020243,8977,793peak 1915 · #22
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

Carl was given to 215 boys in 2024, ranking 1,033rd for the year. It peaked in 1915, when it ranked 22nd and went to 6,613 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 285 places since 2019. It is also on 94 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,264th among dogs there, and on 7 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Carl 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.