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Gauge
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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2024
#3,712 for boys
Peak
2013, #731
Since 1880
4,794 babies
On licences
8 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Gauge was given to 30 boys in 2024, ranking 3,712th for the year. It peaked in 2013, when it ranked 731st and went to 319 babies. It has appeared in 35 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 2,010 places since 2019. It is also on 8 dog licences in New York City, ranked 8,067th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Gauge, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Gauge 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.