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Clarence
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name3 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
#1,500 for boys
Peak
1895, #17
Since 1880
305,423 babies
On licences
66 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Clarence was given to 117 boys in 2025, ranking 1,500th for the year. It peaked in 1895, when it ranked 17th and went to 1,326 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It is also on 66 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,665th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Clarence, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Clarence 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.