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Wendell

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 Wendell

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,068 for boys

Peak

1940, #114

Since 1880

54,263 babies

On licences

22 dogs in New York

Charting: Wendell

Figure 1. Human babies named Wendell, 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

Wendell was given to 73 boys in 2024, ranking 2,068th for the year. It peaked in 1940, when it ranked 114th and went to 1,625 babies. It has appeared in 144 of the 145 years on record. It is also on 22 dog licences in New York City, ranked 3,852nd among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Wendell 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.