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Merrick
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 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 2024
#1,219 for boys
Peak
2018, #818
Since 1880
6,117 babies
On licences
9 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Merrick was given to 165 boys in 2024, ranking 1,219th for the year. It peaked in 2018, when it ranked 818th and went to 274 babies. It has appeared in 107 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 233 places since 2019. It is also on 9 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,466th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Merrick, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Merrick 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.