HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Dan

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. Dan, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	1,962
2025 number	78
Peak year	1958
Peak rank	109
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	24
Pet licences, Seattle	4

Statement of record

Dan was given to 78 boys in 2025, ranking 1,962nd for the year. It peaked in 1958, when it ranked 109th and went to 3,692 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: Dan

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

56%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, 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.