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Merit
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables2 tokens
Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Girls and boys
In 2024
#7,446 for girls
Peak
2023, #5,082
Since 1880
471 babies
What the numbers say
Merit was given to 15 girls in 2024, ranking 7,446th for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 5,082nd and went to 26 babies. It has appeared in 33 of the 145 years on record. In 2024 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has fallen 219 places since 2019.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Merit, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Merit 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.