HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Esma

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. Esma, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	5,293
2025 number	24
Peak year	1890
Peak rank	1,030
Years present	67 of 146
Dog licences, New York	2
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Esma was given to 24 girls in 2025, ranking 5,293rd for the year. It peaked in 1890, when it ranked 1,030th and went to 8 babies. It has appeared in 67 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 227 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Esma

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, by spelling. One sibilant, 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.