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Unknown
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables1 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
#3,293 for girls
Peak
1954, #308
Since 1880
19,714 babies
What the numbers say
Unknown was given to 48 girls in 2025, ranking 3,293rd for the year. It peaked in 1954, when it ranked 308th and went to 548 babies. It has appeared in 145 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 310 places since 2020.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Unknown, for a fleet with a birth year.
Villain probability, by sound
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Unknown 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.