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Lief

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 Lief

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

Not given

Peak

1973, #3,148

Since 1880

279 babies

Charting: Lief

Figure 1. Human babies named Lief, 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

Lief was not given to five or more babies of either sex in 2024. It last appeared in 2023. It peaked in 1973, when it ranked 3,148th and went to 11 babies. It has appeared in 38 of the 145 years on record.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Lief yet. The registry has 0 bearers. A name that has been resting. The break will do it good.

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.