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Phil

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

Human name1 syllable1 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 Phil

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#11,936 for boys

Peak

1947, #261

Since 1880

20,098 babies

On licences

61 dogs in New York

Charting: Phil

Figure 1. Human babies named Phil, 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

Phil was given to 6 boys in 2024, ranking 11,936th for the year. It peaked in 1947, when it ranked 261st and went to 659 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 5,612 places since 2019. It is also on 61 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,789th among dogs there, and on 3 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Phil 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.