HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Berkeley

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. Berkeley, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	2,490
2025 number	71
Peak year	2017
Peak rank	1,763
Years present	102 of 146
Dog licences, New York	60
Pet licences, Seattle	8

Statement of record

Berkeley was given to 71 girls in 2025, ranking 2,490th for the year. It peaked in 2017, when it ranked 1,763rd and went to 119 babies. It has appeared in 102 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 581 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Berkeley

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.