HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Corban

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. Corban, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	3,327
2025 number	35
Peak year	2013
Peak rank	967
Years present	51 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Corban was given to 35 boys in 2025, ranking 3,327th for the year. It peaked in 2013, when it ranked 967th and went to 207 babies. It has appeared in 51 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,085 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Corban

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

48%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, ends on a consonant. 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.