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Chan
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 2024
#11,143 for boys
Peak
1986, #2,302
Since 1880
1,240 babies
On licences
16 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Chan was given to 6 boys in 2024, ranking 11,143rd for the year. It peaked in 1986, when it ranked 2,302nd and went to 24 babies. It has appeared in 85 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 2,099 places since 2019. It is also on 16 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,708th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Chan, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Chan 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.