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Hercules

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

Human name3 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 Hercules

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#6,582 for boys

Peak

1908, #1,291

Since 1880

1,300 babies

On licences

482 dogs in New York

Charting: Hercules

Figure 1. Human babies named Hercules, 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

Hercules was given to 13 boys in 2024, ranking 6,582nd for the year. It peaked in 1908, when it ranked 1,291st and went to 6 babies. It has appeared in 103 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 1,264 places since 2019. It is also on 482 dog licences in New York City, ranked 254th among dogs there, and on 10 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Hercules 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.