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Russ

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

Human name1 syllable1 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.

Register Russ

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#6,386 for boys

Peak

1959, #427

Since 1880

6,111 babies

On licences

18 dogs in New York

Charting: Russ

Figure 1. Human babies named Russ, 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

Russ was given to 14 boys in 2024, ranking 6,386th for the year. It peaked in 1959, when it ranked 427th and went to 350 babies. It has appeared in 113 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 1,154 places since 2019. It is also on 18 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,436th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Russ 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.