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Heir

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

Human name1 syllable2 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 2025

#7,868 for boys

Peak

2024, #6,600

Since 1880

72 babies

On licences

1 dog in New York

Charting: Heir

Figure 1. Human babies named Heir, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Heir was given to 10 boys in 2025, ranking 7,868th for the year. It peaked in 2024, when it ranked 6,600th and went to 13 babies. It has appeared in 7 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,442 places since 2020. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 28,260th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Heir 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 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Heir · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent