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Yates
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name2 syllables2 tokens
Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2024
#5,866 for boys
Peak
1923, #2,121
Since 1880
503 babies
On licences
6 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
Yates was given to 16 boys in 2024, ranking 5,866th for the year. It peaked in 1923, when it ranked 2,121st and went to 16 babies. It has appeared in 62 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 1,283 places since 2019. It is also on 6 dog licences in New York City, ranked 11,269th among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Yates, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Yates 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
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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.