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Velvet
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 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
In 2025
#8,824 for girls
Peak
1961, #542
Since 1880
3,101 babies
On licences
36 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Velvet was given to 12 girls in 2025, ranking 8,824th for the year. It peaked in 1961, when it ranked 542nd and went to 332 babies. It has appeared in 83 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 3,250 places since 2020. It is also on 36 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,712th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Velvet, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Velvet 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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.