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Karthikeya
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name3 syllables4 tokens
Costs 4 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 292,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#3,478 for boys
Peak
2016, #3,035
Since 1880
370 babies
What the numbers say
Karthikeya was given to 33 boys in 2025, ranking 3,478th for the year. It peaked in 2016, when it ranked 3,035th and went to 39 babies. It has appeared in 21 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,664 places since 2020.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Karthikeya, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Karthikeya 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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.