HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Boss

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. Boss, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	9,849
2025 number	7
Peak year	1894
Peak rank	570
Years present	53 of 146
Dog licences, New York	89
Pet licences, Seattle	7

Statement of record

Boss was given to 7 boys in 2025, ranking 9,849th for the year. It peaked in 1894, when it ranked 570th and went to 13 babies. It has appeared in 53 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 4,109 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Boss

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.