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Clark

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 Clark

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#437 for boys

Peak

1881, #176

Since 1880

50,351 babies

On licences

104 dogs in New York

Charting: Clark

Figure 1. Human babies named Clark, 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

Clark was given to 725 boys in 2024, ranking 437th for the year. It peaked in 1881, when it ranked 176th and went to 66 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 104 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,164th among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Clark yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.