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Herman
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables2 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 2024
#2,641 for boys
Peak
1893, #44
Since 1880
136,709 babies
On licences
84 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Herman was given to 50 boys in 2024, ranking 2,641st for the year. It peaked in 1893, when it ranked 44th and went to 455 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 634 places since 2019. It is also on 84 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,375th among dogs there, and on 5 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Herman, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Herman 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.