HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Che

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. Che, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	7,773
2025 number	10
Peak year	1974
Peak rank	833
Years present	58 of 146
Dog licences, New York	43
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Che was given to 10 boys in 2025, ranking 7,773rd for the year. It peaked in 1974, when it ranked 833rd and went to 94 babies. It has appeared in 58 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,071 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Che

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.