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Cliff
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable2 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
#2,895 for boys
Peak
1886, #358
Since 1880
9,307 babies
On licences
37 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Cliff was given to 43 boys in 2025, ranking 2,895th for the year. It peaked in 1886, when it ranked 358th and went to 23 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 228 places since 2020. It is also on 37 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,613th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Cliff, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Cliff 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.