HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Briar

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. Briar, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	400
2025 number	778
Peak year	2025
Peak rank	400
Years present	54 of 146
Dog licences, New York	8
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Briar was given to 778 girls in 2025, ranking 400th for the year. It peaked in 2025, when it ranked 400th and went to 778 babies. It has appeared in 54 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Briar

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

28%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, 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.