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Josiah
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables2 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
Boys
In 2024
#53 for boys
Peak
2017, #51
Since 1880
143,787 babies
On licences
1 dog in New York
What the numbers say
Josiah was given to 5,457 boys in 2024, ranking 53rd for the year. It peaked in 2017, when it ranked 51st and went to 7,073 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 28,850th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Josiah, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Josiah yet. The registry has 0 bearers. You would be naming your agent something a great many toddlers currently answer to. Parents report this is fine until a video call.
Sources
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.