HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Fern

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. Fern, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,220
2025 number	186
Peak year	1916
Peak rank	152
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	119
Pet licences, Seattle	21

Statement of record

Fern was given to 186 girls in 2025, ranking 1,220th for the year. It peaked in 1916, when it ranked 152nd and went to 1,332 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has climbed 345 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Fern

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

50%

Basis: phonetics. Ends on a consonant. 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.