HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Hastings

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. Hastings, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	6,244
2025 number	14
Peak year	1912
Peak rank	2,397
Years present	11 of 146
Dog licences, New York	4
Pet licences, Seattle	2

Statement of record

Hastings was given to 14 boys in 2025, ranking 6,244th for the year. It peaked in 1912, when it ranked 2,397th and went to 6 babies. It has appeared in 11 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 4,859 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Hastings

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

76%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, two sibilants, 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.