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Rankin
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
Boys
In 2024
#8,155 for boys
Peak
1913, #2,229
Since 1880
340 babies
On licences
1 dog in New York
What the numbers say
Rankin was given to 10 boys in 2024, ranking 8,155th for the year. It peaked in 1913, when it ranked 2,229th and went to 8 babies. It has appeared in 47 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 5,522 places since 2019. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 32,024th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Rankin, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Rankin 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.