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Mel
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
Boys
In 2024
#6,819 for girls
Peak
1942, #721
Since 1880
4,175 babies
On licences
51 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Mel was given to 17 girls in 2024, ranking 6,819th for the year. It peaked in 1942, when it ranked 721st and went to 80 babies. It has appeared in 117 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 210 places since 2019. It is also on 51 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,052nd among dogs there, and on 4 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Mel, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Mel 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.