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Scotty

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

Human name2 syllables3 tokens

Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Register Scotty

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#1,769 for boys

Peak

1971, #210

Since 1880

19,230 babies

On licences

140 dogs in New York

Charting: Scotty

Figure 1. Human babies named Scotty, 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

Scotty was given to 93 boys in 2024, ranking 1,769th for the year. It peaked in 1971, when it ranked 210th and went to 1,118 babies. It has appeared in 109 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 1,324 places since 2019. It is also on 140 dog licences in New York City, ranked 914th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Scotty 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.