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Lou
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
#1,929 for boys
Peak
1880, #125
Since 1880
38,198 babies
On licences
247 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Lou was given to 81 boys in 2025, ranking 1,929th for the year. It peaked in 1880, when it ranked 125th and went to 131 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 411 places since 2020. It is also on 247 dog licences in New York City, ranked 544th among dogs there, and on 5 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Lou, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Lou 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
Our editors write full entries for names with an agent history. This one has the figures.
As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.