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Chester
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 2025
#1,588 for boys
Peak
1918, #54
Since 1880
122,302 babies
On licences
836 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Chester was given to 107 boys in 2025, ranking 1,588th for the year. It peaked in 1918, when it ranked 54th and went to 3,692 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It is also on 836 dog licences in New York City, ranked 137th among dogs there, and on 19 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Chester, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Chester 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.