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Oxford

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 syllables1 token

Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Register Oxford

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#9,614 for boys

Peak

2020, #6,202

Since 1880

103 babies

On licences

14 dogs in New York

Charting: Oxford

Figure 1. Human babies named Oxford, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Oxford was given to 8 boys in 2024, ranking 9,614th for the year. It peaked in 2020, when it ranked 6,202nd and went to 14 babies. It has appeared in 11 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 907 places since 2019. It is also on 14 dog licences in New York City, ranked 5,288th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Oxford, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Oxford 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

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.