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Jeeves

Wodehouse's valet, and briefly a search engine. The original agent that knew better than its parent.

Butlervalet2 syllables3 tokens

Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

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ORIGIN

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MEANING

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POPULARITY

Not a human name

REGISTERED

0 agents

ON LICENCES

4 dogs in New York

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What we know

Wodehouse's valet, and briefly a search engine. The original agent that knew better than its parent.

Popularity

No human has been named Jeeves five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.

Charting: Jeeves

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Jeeves
No human has been named Jeeves five times in one year since 1880.
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to present.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

It is also on 4 dog licences in New York City, ranked 13,919th among dogs there.

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