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Tess

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

Girls

In 2025

#1,794 for girls

Peak

1993, #481

Since 1880

14,770 babies

On licences

141 dogs in New York

Charting: Tess

Figure 1. Human babies named Tess, per million births of girls, 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

Tess was given to 113 girls in 2025, ranking 1,794th for the year. It peaked in 1993, when it ranked 481st and went to 524 babies. It has appeared in 123 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 513 places since 2020. It is also on 141 dog licences in New York City, ranked 904th among dogs there, and on 4 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Tess 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.

Tess · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent