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Yaw

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 Yaw

Recorded as

Boys

In 2024

#7,700 for boys

Peak

1997, #3,873

Since 1880

398 babies

Charting: Yaw

Figure 1. Human babies named Yaw, 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

Yaw was given to 11 boys in 2024, ranking 7,700th for the year. It peaked in 1997, when it ranked 3,873rd and went to 18 babies. It has appeared in 43 of the 145 years on record. It has climbed 1,155 places since 2019.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Yaw 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.