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Laurence

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name3 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.

Register Laurence

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,196 for boys

Peak

1903, #202

Since 1880

40,117 babies

On licences

3 dogs in New York

Charting: Laurence

Figure 1. Human babies named Laurence, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002024323646peak 1903 · #202
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

Laurence was given to 66 boys in 2024, ranking 2,196th for the year. It peaked in 1903, when it ranked 202nd and went to 77 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 3 dog licences in New York City, ranked 16,901st among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Laurence 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.