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Sayer
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.
Recorded as
Girls and boys
In 2025
#16,865 for girls
Peak
2017, #3,873
Since 1880
417 babies
On licences
5 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Sayer was given to 5 girls in 2025, ranking 16,865th for the year. It peaked in 2017, when it ranked 3,873rd and went to 28 babies. It has appeared in 37 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It is also on 5 dog licences in New York City, ranked 12,608th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Sayer, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Sayer 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.