HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Corde

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. Corde, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	12,418
2025 number	5
Peak year	2008
Peak rank	1,120
Years present	29 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Corde was given to 5 boys in 2025, ranking 12,418th for the year. It peaked in 2008, when it ranked 1,120th and went to 163 babies. It has appeared in 29 of the 146 years on record. Five babies received it in 2025, the smallest number the Social Security Administration will print.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Corde

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

36%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. One voiced obstruent, ends in a vowel. The pronouncing dictionary has no entry, so the letters were sounded out by a stated rule.

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.