HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Blake

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. Blake, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	316
2025 number	1,080
Peak year	2012
Peak rank	71
Years present	132 of 146
Dog licences, New York	142
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Blake was given to 1,080 boys in 2025, ranking 316th for the year. It peaked in 2012, when it ranked 71st and went to 6,047 babies. It has appeared in 132 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Blake

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

48%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, ends on a consonant. 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.