HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Gunther

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. Gunther, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	5,466
2025 number	17
Peak year	1995
Peak rank	2,418
Years present	82 of 146
Dog licences, New York	84
Pet licences, Seattle	11

Statement of record

Gunther was given to 17 boys in 2025, ranking 5,466th for the year. It peaked in 1995, when it ranked 2,418th and went to 32 babies. It has appeared in 82 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,146 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Gunther

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

36%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, 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.