HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Gustave

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. Gustave, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	7,858
2025 number	10
Peak year	1885
Peak rank	219
Years present	145 of 146
Dog licences, New York	3
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Gustave was given to 10 boys in 2025, ranking 7,858th for the year. It peaked in 1885, when it ranked 219th and went to 55 babies. It has appeared in 145 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,438 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Gustave

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

52%

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