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Oswald
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 2024
#2,121 for boys
Peak
1897, #468
Since 1880
4,339 babies
On licences
43 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Oswald was given to 70 boys in 2024, ranking 2,121st for the year. It peaked in 1897, when it ranked 468th and went to 18 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has climbed 855 places since 2019. It is also on 43 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,365th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Oswald, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Oswald 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.