HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Elspeth

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. Elspeth, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	7,600
2025 number	14
Peak year	1984
Peak rank	2,438
Years present	73 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Elspeth was given to 14 girls in 2025, ranking 7,600th for the year. It peaked in 1984, when it ranked 2,438th and went to 39 babies. It has appeared in 73 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 2,393 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Elspeth

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

52%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. One bilabial stop, 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.