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Merry

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.

Register Merry

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#7,117 for girls

Peak

1954, #472

Since 1880

10,360 babies

On licences

32 dogs in New York

Charting: Merry

Figure 1. Human babies named Merry, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Merry was given to 16 girls in 2024, ranking 7,117th for the year. It peaked in 1954, when it ranked 472nd and went to 355 babies. It has appeared in 121 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 32 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,960th among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Merry, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Merry 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

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.