HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Escher

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. Escher, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	6,569
2025 number	13
Peak year	2014
Peak rank	3,483
Years present	22 of 146
Dog licences, New York	2
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Escher was given to 13 boys in 2025, ranking 6,569th for the year. It peaked in 2014, when it ranked 3,483rd and went to 31 babies. It has appeared in 22 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,819 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Escher

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.