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Williams

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

Human name2 syllables1 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.

Register Williams

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,542 for boys

Peak

1892, #524

Since 1880

6,110 babies

On licences

77 dogs in New York

Charting: Williams

Figure 1. Human babies named Williams, 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

Williams was given to 53 boys in 2024, ranking 2,542nd for the year. It peaked in 1892, when it ranked 524th and went to 16 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It has climbed 262 places since 2019. It is also on 77 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,491st among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Williams 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.