HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Clay

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. Clay, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	573
2025 number	515
Peak year	1960
Peak rank	265
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	37
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Clay was given to 515 boys in 2025, ranking 573rd for the year. It peaked in 1960, when it ranked 265th and went to 904 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Clay

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

30%

Basis: phonetics. 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.