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Marcellus
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name3 syllables3 tokens
Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#1,054 for boys
Peak
2021, #732
Since 1880
9,608 babies
On licences
3 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Marcellus was given to 208 boys in 2025, ranking 1,054th for the year. It peaked in 2021, when it ranked 732nd and went to 351 babies. It has appeared in 143 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 313 places since 2020. It is also on 3 dog licences in New York City, ranked 17,091st among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Marcellus, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Marcellus 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.