HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Betty

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. Betty, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,113
2025 number	212
Peak year	1930
Peak rank	2
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	607
Pet licences, Seattle	36

Statement of record

Betty was given to 212 girls in 2025, ranking 1,113th for the year. It peaked in 1930, when it ranked 2nd and went to 38,240 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Betty

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.