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Rex

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name1 syllable2 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 Rex

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#794 for boys

Peak

1951, #170

Since 1880

60,301 babies

On licences

1,227 dogs in New York

Charting: Rex

Figure 1. Human babies named Rex, 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

Rex was given to 316 boys in 2024, ranking 794th for the year. It peaked in 1951, when it ranked 170th and went to 1,503 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 1,227 dog licences in New York City, ranked 86th among dogs there, and on 23 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Rex 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.