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Gretel

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

Human name2 syllables3 tokens

Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Register Gretel

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#3,290 for girls

Peak

2022, #2,588

Since 1880

1,465 babies

On licences

46 dogs in New York

Charting: Gretel

Figure 1. Human babies named Gretel, 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

Gretel was given to 48 girls in 2024, ranking 3,290th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 2,588th and went to 68 babies. It has appeared in 93 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 449 places since 2019. It is also on 46 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,221st among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Gretel 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.