HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Barbie

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. Barbie, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	4,277
2025 number	33
Peak year	1964
Peak rank	756
Years present	89 of 146
Dog licences, New York	87
Pet licences, Seattle	5

Statement of record

Barbie was given to 33 girls in 2025, ranking 4,277th for the year. It peaked in 1964, when it ranked 756th and went to 190 babies. It has appeared in 89 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 624 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Barbie

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.