HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Brian

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. Brian, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	339
2025 number	979
Peak year	1973
Peak rank	8
Years present	116 of 146
Dog licences, New York	68
Pet licences, Seattle	5

Statement of record

Brian was given to 979 boys in 2025, ranking 339th for the year. It peaked in 1973, when it ranked 8th and went to 35,686 babies. It has appeared in 116 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Brian

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

48%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, 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.