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Jakob

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.

Register Jakob

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#1,122 for boys

Peak

2001, #172

Since 1880

31,821 babies

On licences

1 dog in New York

Charting: Jakob

Figure 1. Human babies named Jakob, 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

Jakob was given to 190 boys in 2024, ranking 1,122nd for the year. It peaked in 2001, when it ranked 172nd and went to 2,192 babies. It has appeared in 65 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 363 places since 2019. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 28,623rd among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Jakob 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.