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Kay

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.

Register Kay

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#3,912 for girls

Peak

1939, #76

Since 1880

102,497 babies

On licences

27 dogs in New York

Charting: Kay

Figure 1. Human babies named Kay, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020241,4862,973peak 1939 · #76
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

Kay was given to 38 girls in 2024, ranking 3,912th for the year. It peaked in 1939, when it ranked 76th and went to 3,260 babies. It has appeared in 141 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 329 places since 2019. It is also on 27 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,313th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Kay 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 2024. Public domain.

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