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Carolyn

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

Human name3 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

Girls

In 2025

#1,222 for girls

Peak

1942, #10

Since 1880

558,397 babies

On licences

2 dogs in New York

Charting: Carolyn

Figure 1. Human babies named Carolyn, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020257,39514,791peak 1942 · #10
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Carolyn was given to 185 girls in 2025, ranking 1,222nd for the year. It peaked in 1942, when it ranked 10th and went to 19,978 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 275 places since 2020. It is also on 2 dog licences in New York City, ranked 19,397th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Carolyn 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 2025. Public domain.

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

Carolyn · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent