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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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#3,277 for boys
Peak
1960, #177
Since 1880
33,043 babies
On licences
33 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Ken was given to 36 boys in 2025, ranking 3,277th for the year. It peaked in 1960, when it ranked 177th and went to 1,775 babies. It has appeared in 117 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 894 places since 2020. 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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.