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Hastings

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 Hastings

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#9,284 for boys

Peak

1912, #2,397

Since 1880

73 babies

On licences

4 dogs in New York

Charting: Hastings

Figure 1. Human babies named Hastings, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002024714peak 1912 · #2397
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

Hastings was given to 8 boys in 2024, ranking 9,284th for the year. It peaked in 1912, when it ranked 2,397th and went to 6 babies. It has appeared in 10 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 4 dog licences in New York City, ranked 13,811th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Hastings 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.