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Link

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

Boys

In 2025

#1,579 for boys

Peak

2022, #1,075

Since 1880

2,689 babies

On licences

133 dogs in New York

Charting: Link

Figure 1. Human babies named Link, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Link was given to 108 boys in 2025, ranking 1,579th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 1,075th and went to 204 babies. It has appeared in 91 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 436 places since 2020. It is also on 133 dog licences in New York City, ranked 955th among dogs there, and on 9 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Link 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 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Link · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent