HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Ernesto

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. Ernesto, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	878
2025 number	272
Peak year	2002
Peak rank	324
Years present	125 of 146
Dog licences, New York	26
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Ernesto was given to 272 boys in 2025, ranking 878th for the year. It peaked in 2002, when it ranked 324th and went to 853 babies. It has appeared in 125 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Ernesto

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

40%

Basis: phonetics. One sibilant, 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.