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Zooey

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.

Register Zooey

Recorded as

Girls

In 2024

#15,234 for girls

Peak

2012, #1,250

Since 1880

1,099 babies

On licences

95 dogs in New York

Charting: Zooey

Figure 1. Human babies named Zooey, 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

Zooey was given to 6 girls in 2024, ranking 15,234th for the year. It peaked in 2012, when it ranked 1,250th and went to 194 babies. It has appeared in 21 of the 145 years on record. It has fallen 10,798 places since 2019. It is also on 95 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,262nd among dogs there, and on 5 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

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

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Zooey 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.