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Merlyn
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 2025
#12,740 for girls
Peak
1930, #510
Since 1880
5,045 babies
On licences
1 dog in New York
What the numbers say
Merlyn was given to 7 girls in 2025, ranking 12,740th for the year. It peaked in 1930, when it ranked 510th and went to 137 babies. It has appeared in 113 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has fallen 3,968 places since 2020. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 30,348th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Merlyn, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Merlyn 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.