HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Garland

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. Garland, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	6,928
2025 number	12
Peak year	1905
Peak rank	251
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	2
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Garland was given to 12 boys in 2025, ranking 6,928th for the year. It peaked in 1905, when it ranked 251st and went to 60 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 1,394 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Garland

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

62%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, 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.