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Valentine

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name4 syllables2 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 and boys

In 2025

#1,807 for boys

Peak

1894, #366

Since 1880

8,950 babies

On licences

116 dogs in New York

Charting: Valentine

Figure 1. Human babies named Valentine, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002025112225peak 1894 · #366
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

Valentine was given to 89 boys in 2025, ranking 1,807th for the year. It peaked in 1894, when it ranked 366th and went to 26 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 737 places since 2020. It is also on 116 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,083rd among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

Villain probability, by sound

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Valentine 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.

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