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Niv
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
Boys
In 2025
#9,913 for girls
Peak
2020, #7,367
Since 1880
133 babies
On licences
7 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Niv was given to 10 girls in 2025, ranking 9,913th for the year. It peaked in 2020, when it ranked 7,367th and went to 11 babies. It has appeared in 18 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 6,950 places since 2020. It is also on 7 dog licences in New York City, ranked 9,360th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Niv, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Niv 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.