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Mac

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 Mac

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#696 for boys

Peak

1942, #308

Since 1880

11,058 babies

On licences

388 dogs in New York

Charting: Mac

Figure 1. Human babies named Mac, per million births of boys, 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

Mac was given to 387 boys in 2024, ranking 696th for the year. It peaked in 1942, when it ranked 308th and went to 398 babies. It has appeared in 140 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 388 dog licences in New York City, ranked 331st among dogs there, and on 18 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Mac yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.