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Tank

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

Boys

In 2025

#8,177 for boys

Peak

2013, #6,203

Since 1880

173 babies

On licences

407 dogs in New York

Charting: Tank

Figure 1. Human babies named Tank, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Tank was given to 10 boys in 2025, ranking 8,177th for the year. It peaked in 2013, when it ranked 6,203rd and went to 14 babies. It has appeared in 20 of the 146 years on record. It is also on 407 dog licences in New York City, ranked 308th among dogs there, and on 22 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Tank 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 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.