HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Arnika

A human name, held in the Social Security file. It is not in the Administration’s index of agent names, and it has no classification.

Table 1. Arnika, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	6,874
2025 number	16
Peak year	2020
Peak rank	5,504
Years present	17 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Arnika was given to 16 girls in 2025, ranking 6,874th for the year. It peaked in 2020, when it ranked 5,504th and went to 22 babies. It has appeared in 17 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,370 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Arnika

Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

Villain probability

30%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. Ends in a vowel. The pronouncing dictionary has no entry, so the letters were sounded out by a stated rule.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

As recorded on the Social Security card application. Names given to fewer than five babies of a sex in a year are not published, so the file is a floor.