HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Harper

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. Harper, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	16
2025 number	6,792
Peak year	2018
Peak rank	9
Years present	134 of 146
Dog licences, New York	487
Pet licences, Seattle	18

Statement of record

Harper was given to 6,792 girls in 2025, ranking 16th for the year. It peaked in 2018, when it ranked 9th and went to 10,646 babies. It has appeared in 134 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Harper

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

22%

Basis: phonetics. One bilabial stop, 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.