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Portland

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.

Register Portland

Recorded as

Girls and boys

In 2024

#10,618 for boys

Peak

2019, #8,499

Since 1880

257 babies

On licences

4 dogs in New York

Charting: Portland

Figure 1. Human babies named Portland, per million births of girls, 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

Portland was given to 7 boys in 2024, ranking 10,618th for the year. It peaked in 2019, when it ranked 8,499th and went to 13 babies. It has appeared in 24 of the 145 years on record. In 2024 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 3,011 places since 2019. It is also on 4 dog licences in New York City, ranked 14,635th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Portland 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.