HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Aster

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. Aster, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	2,935
2025 number	57
Peak year	2022
Peak rank	2,467
Years present	51 of 146
Dog licences, New York	21
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Aster was given to 57 girls in 2025, ranking 2,935th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 2,467th and went to 73 babies. It has appeared in 51 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 212 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Aster

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

40%

Basis: phonetics. One sibilant, ends in a vowel. The canon has no entry, so this is the sound of the name and nothing else.

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.