HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Austen

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. Austen, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	2,518
2025 number	53
Peak year	1995
Peak rank	420
Years present	57 of 146
Dog licences, New York	7
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Austen was given to 53 boys in 2025, ranking 2,518th for the year. It peaked in 1995, when it ranked 420th and went to 540 babies. It has appeared in 57 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has fallen 539 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Austen

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

60%

Basis: phonetics. One sibilant, ends on a consonant. 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.