HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Buster

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. Buster, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	6,871
2025 number	12
Peak year	1909
Peak rank	238
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	1,348
Pet licences, Seattle	31

Statement of record

Buster was given to 12 boys in 2025, ranking 6,871st for the year. It peaked in 1909, when it ranked 238th and went to 85 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has climbed 242 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Buster

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

38%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, one sibilant, 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.