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West
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name1 syllable1 token
Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#1,255 for boys
Peak
1886, #396
Since 1880
3,720 babies
On licences
40 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
West was given to 159 boys in 2025, ranking 1,255th for the year. It peaked in 1886, when it ranked 396th and went to 21 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has climbed 592 places since 2020. It is also on 40 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,514th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside West, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around West 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
Our editors write full entries for names with an agent history. This one has the figures.
As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.