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Van
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 2024
#907 for boys
Peak
1891, #234
Since 1880
30,949 babies
On licences
36 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Van was given to 257 boys in 2024, ranking 907th for the year. It peaked in 1891, when it ranked 234th and went to 48 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 36 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,711th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Van, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Van yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.
Sources
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.