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Kirk
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable2 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
Boys
In 2025
#2,551 for boys
Peak
1962, #138
Since 1880
68,264 babies
On licences
20 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Kirk was given to 52 boys in 2025, ranking 2,551st for the year. It peaked in 1962, when it ranked 138th and went to 2,560 babies. It has appeared in 136 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 447 places since 2020. It is also on 20 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,061st among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Kirk, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Kirk 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.