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Rad
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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#8,758 for boys
Peak
2023, #5,612
Since 1880
214 babies
On licences
3 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Rad was given to 9 boys in 2025, ranking 8,758th for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 5,612th and went to 17 babies. It has appeared in 28 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 2,216 places since 2020. It is also on 3 dog licences in New York City, ranked 17,697th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Rad, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Rad 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.