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Niles
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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#2,506 for boys
Peak
1913, #1,067
Since 1880
4,455 babies
On licences
45 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Niles was given to 54 boys in 2025, ranking 2,506th for the year. It peaked in 1913, when it ranked 1,067th and went to 23 babies. It has appeared in 117 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 466 places since 2020. It is also on 45 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,279th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Niles, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Niles 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.