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Chief

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 Chief

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#4,080 for boys

Peak

2020, #3,283

Since 1880

332 babies

On licences

130 dogs in New York

Charting: Chief

Figure 1. Human babies named Chief, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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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

Chief was given to 26 boys in 2024, ranking 4,080th for the year. It peaked in 2020, when it ranked 3,283rd and went to 34 babies. It has appeared in 20 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 130 dog licences in New York City, ranked 975th among dogs there, and on 5 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Chief 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.