HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Charlie

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. Charlie, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	145
2025 number	2,460
Peak year	1900
Peak rank	25
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	6,462
Pet licences, Seattle	242

Statement of record

Charlie was given to 2,460 boys in 2025, ranking 145th for the year. It peaked in 1900, when it ranked 25th and went to 1,124 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Charlie

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

40%

Basis: phonetics. 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.