HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Boden

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. Boden, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	769
2025 number	333
Peak year	2023
Peak rank	757
Years present	34 of 146
Dog licences, New York	11
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Boden was given to 333 boys in 2025, ranking 769th for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 757th and went to 344 babies. It has appeared in 34 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Boden

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

54%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, 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.