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Human names E

English

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

Human name2 syllables1 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 English

Recorded as

Girls and boys

In 2024

Not given

Peak

1983, #3,595

Since 1880

451 babies

On licences

1 dog in New York

Charting: English

Figure 1. Human babies named English, per million births of girls, 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

English was not given to five or more babies of either sex in 2024. It last appeared in 2014. It peaked in 1983, when it ranked 3,595th and went to 22 babies. It has appeared in 58 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 27,272nd among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around English 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.