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Rigel

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 Rigel

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#6,095 for boys

Peak

2018, #3,356

Since 1880

623 babies

On licences

10 dogs in New York

Charting: Rigel

Figure 1. Human babies named Rigel, 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

Rigel was given to 15 boys in 2024, ranking 6,095th for the year. It peaked in 2018, when it ranked 3,356th and went to 34 babies. It has appeared in 46 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 1,486 places since 2019. It is also on 10 dog licences in New York City, ranked 6,876th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Rigel 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

  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.