HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Delia

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. Delia, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,561
2025 number	135
Peak year	1883
Peak rank	128
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	15
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Delia was given to 135 girls in 2025, ranking 1,561st for the year. It peaked in 1883, when it ranked 128th and went to 162 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 217 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Delia

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. One voiced obstruent, 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.