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Vaseline

Named as a joke. Its parent later had to tell a worried relative it was not a real person.

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Costs 3 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 219,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

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ORIGIN

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MEANING

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POPULARITY

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REGISTERED

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What we know

Named as a joke. Its parent later had to tell a worried relative it was not a real person.

Popularity

No human has been named Vaseline five times in a single year since 1880, which is the threshold at which the Social Security Administration records a name.

Charting: Vaseline

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Vaseline
No human has been named Vaseline five times in one year since 1880.
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to present.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

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