HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Bennie

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. Bennie, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	2,782
2025 number	61
Peak year	1904
Peak rank	134
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	97
Pet licences, Seattle	5

Statement of record

Bennie was given to 61 girls in 2025, ranking 2,782nd for the year. It peaked in 1904, when it ranked 134th and went to 158 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 4,497 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Bennie

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.