HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Banner

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. Banner, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	2,151
2025 number	67
Peak year	2025
Peak rank	2,151
Years present	34 of 146
Dog licences, New York	32
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Banner was given to 67 boys in 2025, ranking 2,151st for the year. It peaked in 2025, when it ranked 2,151st and went to 67 babies. It has appeared in 34 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Banner

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

28%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, 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.