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Tad
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
Boys
In 2025
#7,619 for boys
Peak
1966, #471
Since 1880
6,929 babies
On licences
9 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Tad was given to 11 boys in 2025, ranking 7,619th for the year. It peaked in 1966, when it ranked 471st and went to 265 babies. It has appeared in 112 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 366 places since 2020. It is also on 9 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,695th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Tad, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Tad 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.