HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Bette

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. Bette, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	11,103
2025 number	8
Peak year	1923
Peak rank	148
Years present	116 of 146
Dog licences, New York	24
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Bette was given to 8 girls in 2025, ranking 11,103rd for the year. It peaked in 1923, when it ranked 148th and went to 1,693 babies. It has appeared in 116 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,256 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Bette

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.