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Zephaniah
A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.
Human name3 syllables4 tokens
Costs 4 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 292,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Recorded as
Boys
In 2025
#1,458 for boys
Peak
2019, #1,143
Since 1880
3,857 babies
What the numbers say
Zephaniah was given to 123 boys in 2025, ranking 1,458th for the year. It peaked in 2019, when it ranked 1,143rd and went to 171 babies. It has appeared in 51 of the 146 years on record.
Siblings from the same year
Names that peaked alongside Zephaniah, for a fleet with a birth year.
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On an agent
There is no agent tradition around Zephaniah 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.