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Nell
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.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2025
#1,628 for girls
Peak
1886, #144
Since 1880
27,710 babies
On licences
38 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Nell was given to 128 girls in 2025, ranking 1,628th for the year. It peaked in 1886, when it ranked 144th and went to 175 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has climbed 645 places since 2020. It is also on 38 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,585th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Nell, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Nell 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
Our editors write full entries for names with an agent history. This one has the figures.
As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.