HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Bradley

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. Bradley, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	403
2025 number	794
Peak year	1980
Peak rank	51
Years present	141 of 146
Dog licences, New York	120
Pet licences, Seattle	4

Statement of record

Bradley was given to 794 boys in 2025, ranking 403rd for the year. It peaked in 1980, when it ranked 51st and went to 7,210 babies. It has appeared in 141 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Bradley

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

34%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, 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.