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Jacob

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 Jacob

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#41 for boys

Peak

1998, #2

Since 1880

984,245 babies

On licences

260 dogs in New York

Charting: Jacob

Figure 1. Human babies named Jacob, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020249,42518,849peak 1998 · #2
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

Jacob was given to 6,496 boys in 2024, ranking 41st for the year. It peaked in 1998, when it ranked 2nd and went to 36,027 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 260 dog licences in New York City, ranked 505th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Jacob yet. The registry has 0 bearers. You would be naming your agent something a great many toddlers currently answer to. Parents report this is fine until a video call.

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.