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Tam

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 Tam

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#12,139 for boys

Peak

1982, #1,382

Since 1880

1,881 babies

On licences

6 dogs in New York

Charting: Tam

Figure 1. Human babies named Tam, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020241326peak 1982 · #1382
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

Tam was given to 6 boys in 2024, ranking 12,139th for the year. It peaked in 1982, when it ranked 1,382nd and went to 48 babies. It has appeared in 78 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 2,504 places since 2019. It is also on 6 dog licences in New York City, ranked 11,117th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Tam 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.