HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Dez

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. Dez, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	9,949
2025 number	7
Peak year	2015
Peak rank	2,730
Years present	19 of 146
Dog licences, New York	10
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Dez was given to 7 boys in 2025, ranking 9,949th for the year. It peaked in 2015, when it ranked 2,730th and went to 44 babies. It has appeared in 19 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 3,565 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Dez

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

72%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. Two voiced obstruents, one sibilant, ends on a consonant. 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.