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Nick

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

Human name1 syllable1 token

Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Boys

In 2025

#1,447 for boys

Peak

1917, #177

Since 1880

50,589 babies

On licences

123 dogs in New York

Charting: Nick

Figure 1. Human babies named Nick, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002025381762peak 1917 · #177
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Nick was given to 124 boys in 2025, ranking 1,447th for the year. It peaked in 1917, when it ranked 177th and went to 705 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It is also on 123 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,020th among dogs there, and on 5 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Nick 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 2025. Public domain.

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

Nick · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent