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Vernon

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

Human name2 syllables3 tokens

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

Register Vernon

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#1,557 for boys

Peak

1919, #65

Since 1880

148,252 babies

On licences

6 dogs in New York

Charting: Vernon

Figure 1. Human babies named Vernon, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
188019201960200020241,4942,988peak 1919 · #65
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

Vernon was given to 112 boys in 2024, ranking 1,557th for the year. It peaked in 1919, when it ranked 65th and went to 2,929 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 6 dog licences in New York City, ranked 11,214th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Vernon 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.