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Jeff

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.

Register Jeff

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,920 for boys

Peak

1962, #44

Since 1880

120,475 babies

On licences

52 dogs in New York

Charting: Jeff

Figure 1. Human babies named Jeff, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020242,2784,555peak 1962 · #44
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

Jeff was given to 43 boys in 2024, ranking 2,920th for the year. It peaked in 1962, when it ranked 44th and went to 9,424 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 416 places since 2019. It is also on 52 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,025th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Jeff 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.