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Yan

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.

Register Yan

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#2,902 for boys

Peak

2023, #2,890

Since 1880

1,026 babies

On licences

15 dogs in New York

Charting: Yan

Figure 1. Human babies named Yan, 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

Yan was given to 44 boys in 2024, ranking 2,902nd for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 2,890th and went to 44 babies. It has appeared in 46 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 1,425 places since 2019. It is also on 15 dog licences in New York City, ranked 5,123rd among dogs there.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Yan 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.