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Lain

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.

Register Lain

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#7,505 for boys

Peak

2011, #4,053

Since 1880

496 babies

Charting: Lain

Figure 1. Human babies named Lain, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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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

Lain was given to 11 boys in 2024, ranking 7,505th for the year. It peaked in 2011, when it ranked 4,053rd and went to 25 babies. It has appeared in 35 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 1,521 places since 2019.

Siblings from the same year

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

Villain probability, by sound

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Lain 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.