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Zoe

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name1 syllable2 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.

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Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#29 for girls

Peak

2012, #30

Since 1880

158,163 babies

On licences

1,562 dogs in New York

Charting: Zoe

Figure 1. Human babies named Zoe, per million births of girls, 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

Zoe was given to 5,719 girls in 2024, ranking 29th for the year. It peaked in 2012, when it ranked 30th and went to 6,466 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 145 years on record, one of 905 names that have. It is also on 1,562 dog licences in New York City, ranked 59th among dogs there, and on 56 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Zoe yet. The registry has 0 bearers. You would be naming your agent something a great many toddlers currently answer to. Parents report this is fine until a video call.

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.