HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Buckley

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. Buckley, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	2,184
2025 number	65
Peak year	2024
Peak rank	2,032
Years present	85 of 146
Dog licences, New York	102
Pet licences, Seattle	5

Statement of record

Buckley was given to 65 boys in 2025, ranking 2,184th for the year. It peaked in 2024, when it ranked 2,032nd and went to 75 babies. It has appeared in 85 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 961 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Buckley

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.