HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Gertrude

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. Gertrude, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	6,632
2025 number	17
Peak year	1896
Peak rank	23
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	69
Pet licences, Seattle	7

Statement of record

Gertrude was given to 17 girls in 2025, ranking 6,632nd for the year. It peaked in 1896, when it ranked 23rd and went to 2,221 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 2,339 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Gertrude

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.