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Tuff

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.

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Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#3,142 for boys

Peak

2022, #2,347

Since 1880

873 babies

On licences

2 dogs in New York

Charting: Tuff

Figure 1. Human babies named Tuff, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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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

Tuff was given to 39 boys in 2024, ranking 3,142nd for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 2,347th and went to 61 babies. It has appeared in 29 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 520 places since 2019. It is also on 2 dog licences in New York City, ranked 23,888th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Tuff 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.