HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Howie

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. Howie, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	4,770
2025 number	21
Peak year	1957
Peak rank	1,376
Years present	63 of 146
Dog licences, New York	110
Pet licences, Seattle	11

Statement of record

Howie was given to 21 boys in 2025, ranking 4,770th for the year. It peaked in 1957, when it ranked 1,376th and went to 33 babies. It has appeared in 63 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,999 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Howie

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. 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.