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Merrill
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 2025
#6,333 for boys
Peak
1915, #326
Since 1880
15,065 babies
On licences
2 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Merrill was given to 14 boys in 2025, ranking 6,333rd for the year. It peaked in 1915, when it ranked 326th and went to 261 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has climbed 5,192 places since 2020. It is also on 2 dog licences in New York City, ranked 21,835th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Merrill, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Merrill 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.