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Ernest

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 Ernest

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#1,083 for boys

Peak

1895, #24

Since 1880

304,137 babies

On licences

74 dogs in New York

Charting: Ernest

Figure 1. Human babies named Ernest, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020243,5527,104peak 1895 · #24
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

Ernest was given to 200 boys in 2024, ranking 1,083rd for the year. It peaked in 1895, when it ranked 24th and went to 834 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 74 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,522nd among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Ernest 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

  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.