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Raylan

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 Raylan

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#717 for boys

Peak

2015, #473

Since 1880

7,106 babies

On licences

9 dogs in New York

Charting: Raylan

Figure 1. Human babies named Raylan, per million births of boys, 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

Raylan was given to 368 boys in 2024, ranking 717th for the year. It peaked in 2015, when it ranked 473rd and went to 630 babies. It has appeared in 31 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 9 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,582nd among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Raylan yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

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.