HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Edessa

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. Edessa, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	10,320
2025 number	9
Peak year	1917
Peak rank	3,439
Years present	12 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Edessa was given to 9 girls in 2025, ranking 10,320th for the year. It peaked in 1917, when it ranked 3,439th and went to 8 babies. It has appeared in 12 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Edessa

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, by spelling. One voiced obstruent, two sibilants, 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.