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Houston

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

Human name2 syllables1 token

Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Register Houston

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#702 for boys

Peak

1901, #319

Since 1880

18,124 babies

On licences

53 dogs in New York

Charting: Houston

Figure 1. Human babies named Houston, 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

Houston was given to 381 boys in 2024, ranking 702nd for the year. It peaked in 1901, when it ranked 319th and went to 31 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 53 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,992nd among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Houston yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.