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Mark

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 Mark

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#246 for boys

Peak

1960, #6

Since 1880

1,365,265 babies

On licences

42 dogs in New York

Charting: Mark

Figure 1. Human babies named Mark, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
1880192019602000202413,77127,543peak 1960 · #6
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

Mark was given to 1,437 boys in 2024, ranking 246th for the year. It peaked in 1960, when it ranked 6th and went to 58,719 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 42 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,407th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Mark 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.