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Human names D

Dao

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 Dao

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

Not given

Peak

1983, #2,814

Since 1880

282 babies

On licences

1 dog in New York

Charting: Dao

Figure 1. Human babies named Dao, 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

Dao was not given to five or more babies of either sex in 2024. It last appeared in 2018. It peaked in 1983, when it ranked 2,814th and went to 16 babies. It has appeared in 23 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 26,742nd among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Dao yet. The registry has 0 bearers. A name that has been resting. The break will do it good.

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.