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Ernie

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 Ernie

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#6,247 for boys

Peak

1945, #305

Since 1880

17,215 babies

On licences

322 dogs in New York

Charting: Ernie

Figure 1. Human babies named Ernie, 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

Ernie was given to 14 boys in 2024, ranking 6,247th for the year. It peaked in 1945, when it ranked 305th and went to 381 babies. It has appeared in 143 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 1,029 places since 2019. It is also on 322 dog licences in New York City, ranked 413th among dogs there, and on 21 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Ernie 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.