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York
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.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2024
#9,828 for boys
Peak
1881, #780
Since 1880
966 babies
On licences
17 dogs in New York
What the numbers say
York was given to 8 boys in 2024, ranking 9,828th for the year. It peaked in 1881, when it ranked 780th and went to 7 babies. It has appeared in 104 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 1,638 places since 2019. It is also on 17 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,673rd among dogs there.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside York, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around York 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.