HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Brenda

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. Brenda, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,527
2025 number	139
Peak year	1950
Peak rank	14
Years present	122 of 146
Dog licences, New York	33
Pet licences, Seattle	2

Statement of record

Brenda was given to 139 girls in 2025, ranking 1,527th for the year. It peaked in 1950, when it ranked 14th and went to 20,799 babies. It has appeared in 122 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 266 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Brenda

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.