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Jess

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 Jess

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#4,616 for boys

Peak

1886, #111

Since 1880

25,522 babies

On licences

34 dogs in New York

Charting: Jess

Figure 1. Human babies named Jess, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020246321,264peak 1886 · #111
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

Jess was given to 22 boys in 2024, ranking 4,616th for the year. It peaked in 1886, when it ranked 111th and went to 140 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 214 places since 2019. It is also on 34 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,798th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Jess 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.