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Kirby
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables2 tokens
Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Girls and boys
In 2024
#2,539 for girls
Peak
1957, #409
Since 1880
18,395 babies
On licences
230 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Kirby was given to 70 girls in 2024, ranking 2,539th for the year. It peaked in 1957, when it ranked 409th and went to 358 babies. It has appeared in 142 of the 145 years on record. In 2024 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 1,675 places since 2019. It is also on 230 dog licences in New York City, ranked 583rd among dogs there, and on 14 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Kirby, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Kirby 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.