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Ned

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name1 syllable2 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 Ned

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#7,567 for boys

Peak

1890, #240

Since 1880

17,289 babies

On licences

56 dogs in New York

Charting: Ned

Figure 1. Human babies named Ned, per million births of boys, 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

Ned was given to 11 boys in 2024, ranking 7,567th for the year. It peaked in 1890, when it ranked 240th and went to 49 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 1,549 places since 2019. It is also on 56 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,916th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Ned 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.