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Precious
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
Girls
In 2025
#3,158 for girls
Peak
1998, #381
Since 1880
19,540 babies
On licences
625 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Precious was given to 51 girls in 2025, ranking 3,158th for the year. It peaked in 1998, when it ranked 381st and went to 741 babies. It has appeared in 126 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 311 places since 2020. It is also on 625 dog licences in New York City, ranked 183rd among dogs there, and on 7 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Precious, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Precious 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.