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Human names L

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.

Register Lou

Recorded as

Girls and boys

In 2024

#2,541 for girls

Peak

1880, #125

Since 1880

38,049 babies

On licences

247 dogs in New York

Charting: Lou

Figure 1. Human babies named Lou, per million births of girls, 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

Lou was given to 70 girls in 2024, ranking 2,541st for the year. It peaked in 1880, when it ranked 125th and went to 131 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. In 2024 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 1,216 places since 2019. 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

  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.