HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Gaines

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. Gaines, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	5,093
2025 number	19
Peak year	1896
Peak rank	1,033
Years present	117 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Gaines was given to 19 boys in 2025, ranking 5,093rd for the year. It peaked in 1896, when it ranked 1,033rd and went to 6 babies. It has appeared in 117 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,574 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Gaines

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

72%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, one sibilant, 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.