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Human names K

Ken

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 Ken

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#3,295 for boys

Peak

1960, #177

Since 1880

33,004 babies

On licences

33 dogs in New York

Charting: Ken

Figure 1. Human babies named Ken, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002024417833peak 1960 · #177
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

Ken was given to 36 boys in 2024, ranking 3,295th for the year. It peaked in 1960, when it ranked 177th and went to 1,776 babies. It has appeared in 116 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 727 places since 2019. It is also on 33 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,884th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Ken 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.