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Job

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

Boys

In 2025

#2,659 for boys

Peak

1891, #908

Since 1880

3,399 babies

On licences

3 dogs in New York

Charting: Job

Figure 1. Human babies named Job, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Job was given to 49 boys in 2025, ranking 2,659th for the year. It peaked in 1891, when it ranked 908th and went to 6 babies. It has appeared in 99 of the 146 years on record. It is also on 3 dog licences in New York City, ranked 16,651st among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Job 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 2025. Public domain.

Our editors write full entries for names with an agent history. This one has the figures.

As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Job · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent