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Willoughby

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

Human name3 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.

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Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#10,194 for girls

Peak

1923, #2,221

Since 1880

309 babies

On licences

50 dogs in New York

Charting: Willoughby

Figure 1. Human babies named Willoughby, per million births of boys, 1880 to 2024. Agents: 0 on the registry.
18801920196020002024714peak 1923 · #2221
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

Willoughby was given to 10 girls in 2024, ranking 10,194th for the year. It peaked in 1923, when it ranked 2,221st and went to 15 babies. It has appeared in 40 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 7,649 places since 2019. It is also on 50 dog licences in New York City, ranked 2,095th among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Willoughby 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.