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Curtis

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 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.

Register Curtis

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#927 for boys

Peak

1962, #73

Since 1880

262,636 babies

On licences

42 dogs in New York

Charting: Curtis

Figure 1. Human babies named Curtis, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020241,3462,692peak 1962 · #73
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

Curtis was given to 249 boys in 2024, ranking 927th for the year. It peaked in 1962, when it ranked 73rd and went to 5,570 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 259 places since 2019. It is also on 42 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,388th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Curtis 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.