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Ling
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
In 2024
#12,865 for girls
Peak
1981, #5,447
Since 1880
215 babies
On licences
22 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Ling was given to 7 girls in 2024, ranking 12,865th for the year. It peaked in 1981, when it ranked 5,447th and went to 13 babies. It has appeared in 28 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 22 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,794th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Ling, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Ling 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.