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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.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2025
#3,946 for girls
Peak
1939, #76
Since 1880
102,545 babies
On licences
27 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Kay was given to 37 girls in 2025, ranking 3,946th for the year. It peaked in 1939, when it ranked 76th and went to 3,260 babies. It has appeared in 142 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 369 places since 2020. 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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.