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Jan
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable1 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.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2025
#2,731 for boys
Peak
1956, #136
Since 1880
76,934 babies
On licences
19 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Jan was given to 47 boys in 2025, ranking 2,731st for the year. It peaked in 1956, when it ranked 136th and went to 3,201 babies. It has appeared in 119 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 675 places since 2020. It is also on 19 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,200th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Jan, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Jan 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.