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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.

Register Precious

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#2,570 for girls

Peak

1998, #381

Since 1880

19,489 babies

On licences

625 dogs in New York

Charting: Precious

Figure 1. Human babies named Precious, 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

Precious was given to 69 girls in 2024, ranking 2,570th for the year. It peaked in 1998, when it ranked 381st and went to 741 babies. It has appeared in 125 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 469 places since 2019. 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

  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.