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Kate

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 syllables1 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 Kate

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#535 for girls

Peak

1880, #79

Since 1880

85,500 babies

On licences

74 dogs in New York

Charting: Kate

Figure 1. Human babies named Kate, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020241,6433,286peak 1880 · #79
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

Kate was given to 569 girls in 2024, ranking 535th for the year. It peaked in 1880, when it ranked 79th and went to 299 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 211 places since 2019. It is also on 74 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,525th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Kate yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.