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Roscoe

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 Roscoe

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,180 for boys

Peak

1888, #117

Since 1880

22,107 babies

On licences

512 dogs in New York

Charting: Roscoe

Figure 1. Human babies named Roscoe, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020245831,167peak 1888 · #117
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

Roscoe was given to 67 boys in 2024, ranking 2,180th for the year. It peaked in 1888, when it ranked 117th and went to 141 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has fallen 252 places since 2019. It is also on 512 dog licences in New York City, ranked 232nd among dogs there, and on 25 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Roscoe 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.