HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Esther

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. Esther, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	119
2025 number	2,277
Peak year	1896
Peak rank	27
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	69
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Esther was given to 2,277 girls in 2025, ranking 119th for the year. It peaked in 1896, when it ranked 27th and went to 1,964 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Esther

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.