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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.

Register Chip

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#3,272 for boys

Peak

1963, #600

Since 1880

3,469 babies

On licences

559 dogs in New York

Charting: Chip

Figure 1. Human babies named Chip, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020244284peak 1963 · #600
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

Chip was given to 36 boys in 2024, ranking 3,272nd for the year. It peaked in 1963, when it ranked 600th and went to 171 babies. It has appeared in 76 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 571 places since 2019. 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

  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.