HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Bless

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. Bless, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	6,183
2025 number	14
Peak year	2022
Peak rank	3,012
Years present	29 of 146
Dog licences, New York	26
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Bless was given to 14 boys in 2025, ranking 6,183rd for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 3,012th and went to 41 babies. It has appeared in 29 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 2,597 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Bless

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

58%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, one sibilant, 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.