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Nixie
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables3 tokens
Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Girls
In 2025
#5,512 for girls
Peak
2011, #5,022
Since 1880
456 babies
On licences
17 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Nixie was given to 23 girls in 2025, ranking 5,512th for the year. It peaked in 2011, when it ranked 5,022nd and went to 28 babies. It has appeared in 30 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 3,293 places since 2020. It is also on 17 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,589th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Nixie, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Nixie 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.