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Light
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable1 token
Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Girls and boys
In 2025
#9,218 for girls
Peak
2021, #4,084
Since 1880
240 babies
On licences
4 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Light was given to 11 girls in 2025, ranking 9,218th for the year. It peaked in 2021, when it ranked 4,084th and went to 26 babies. It has appeared in 14 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 759 places since 2020. It is also on 4 dog licences in New York City, ranked 14,147th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Light, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Light 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.