HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Barry

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. Barry, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	1,520
2025 number	114
Peak year	1962
Peak rank	61
Years present	134 of 146
Dog licences, New York	148
Pet licences, Seattle	20

Statement of record

Barry was given to 114 boys in 2025, ranking 1,520th for the year. It peaked in 1962, when it ranked 61st and went to 6,585 babies. It has appeared in 134 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Barry

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.