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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.
Recorded as
Girls and boys
In 2025
#17,015 for girls
Peak
1982, #1,408
Since 1880
1,889 babies
On licences
6 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Tam was given to 5 girls in 2025, ranking 17,015th for the year. It peaked in 1982, when it ranked 1,408th and went to 46 babies. It has appeared in 79 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 257 places since 2020. 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
Our editors write full entries for names with an agent history. This one has the figures.
As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.