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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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2024
#1,083 for boys
Peak
1895, #24
Since 1880
304,137 babies
On licences
74 dogs in New York
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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.