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Smokey

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 Smokey

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#10,724 for boys

Peak

1977, #3,574

Since 1880

131 babies

On licences

626 dogs in New York

Charting: Smokey

Figure 1. Human babies named Smokey, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
1880192019602000202437peak 1977 · #3574
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

Smokey was given to 7 boys in 2024, ranking 10,724th for the year. It peaked in 1977, when it ranked 3,574th and went to 11 babies. It has appeared in 21 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 626 dog licences in New York City, ranked 182nd among dogs there, and on 7 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Smokey 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.