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Vern

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

Human name1 syllable2 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.

Register Vern

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#12,205 for boys

Peak

1895, #273

Since 1880

11,975 babies

On licences

9 dogs in New York

Charting: Vern

Figure 1. Human babies named Vern, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Vern was given to 6 boys in 2024, ranking 12,205th for the year. It peaked in 1895, when it ranked 273rd and went to 43 babies. It has appeared in 132 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 9 dog licences in New York City, ranked 7,756th among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Vern 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 2024. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.