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Joan
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable2 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.
Recorded as
Girls and boys
In 2025
#987 for boys
Peak
1932, #5
Since 1880
488,939 babies
On licences
31 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Joan was given to 232 boys in 2025, ranking 987th for the year. It peaked in 1932, when it ranked 5th and went to 21,044 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It is also on 31 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,021st among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Joan, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Joan yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.
Sources
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.