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Chip
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 2025
#4,274 for boys
Peak
1963, #600
Since 1880
3,493 babies
On licences
559 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Chip was given to 24 boys in 2025, ranking 4,274th for the year. It peaked in 1963, when it ranked 600th and went to 171 babies. It has appeared in 77 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,609 places since 2020. It is also on 559 dog licences in New York City, ranked 207th among dogs there, and on 18 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Chip, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Chip 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.