HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Baby

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. Baby, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	6,177
2025 number	14
Peak year	1994
Peak rank	524
Years present	104 of 146
Dog licences, New York	1,297
Pet licences, Seattle	18

Statement of record

Baby was given to 14 boys in 2025, ranking 6,177th for the year. It peaked in 1994, when it ranked 524th and went to 373 babies. It has appeared in 104 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 2,595 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Baby

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

26%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, two bilabial stops, 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.