HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Hanako

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. Hanako, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	9,688
2025 number	10
Peak year	1921
Peak rank	2,076
Years present	43 of 146
Dog licences, New York	6
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Hanako was given to 10 girls in 2025, ranking 9,688th for the year. It peaked in 1921, when it ranked 2,076th and went to 19 babies. It has appeared in 43 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 6,285 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Hanako

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

30%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. Ends in a vowel. The pronouncing dictionary has no entry, so the letters were sounded out by a stated rule.

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.