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Reason
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables1 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 2024
#3,028 for boys
Peak
1885, #918
Since 1880
267 babies
On licences
1 dog in New York
What the numbers say
Reason was given to 41 boys in 2024, ranking 3,028th for the year. It peaked in 1885, when it ranked 918th and went to 6 babies. It has appeared in 23 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 5,047 places since 2019. It is also on 1 dog licence in New York City, ranked 32,062nd among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Reason, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Reason 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.