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Chicago

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

Human name3 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.

Recorded as

Girls and boys

In 2025

#8,471 for girls

Peak

2023, #6,281

Since 1880

175 babies

On licences

24 dogs in New York

Charting: Chicago

Figure 1. Human babies named Chicago, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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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

Chicago was given to 12 girls in 2025, ranking 8,471st for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 6,281st and went to 14 babies. It has appeared in 14 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It is also on 24 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,561st among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

Villain probability, by sound

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Chicago 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.

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