HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Finley

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. Finley, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	333
2025 number	1,017
Peak year	2017
Peak rank	159
Years present	135 of 146
Dog licences, New York	253
Pet licences, Seattle	35

Statement of record

Finley was given to 1,017 boys in 2025, ranking 333rd for the year. It peaked in 2017, when it ranked 159th and went to 1,866 babies. It has appeared in 135 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Finley

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

30%

Basis: phonetics. 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.