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Nylan
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
#3,071 for boys
Peak
2024, #2,517
Since 1880
684 babies
What the numbers say
Nylan was given to 40 boys in 2025, ranking 3,071st for the year. It peaked in 2024, when it ranked 2,517th and went to 54 babies. It has appeared in 27 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 924 places since 2020.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Nylan, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Nylan 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.