HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Janessa

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. Janessa, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,741
2025 number	117
Peak year	2009
Peak rank	545
Years present	67 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Janessa was given to 117 girls in 2025, ranking 1,741st for the year. It peaked in 2009, when it ranked 545th and went to 556 babies. It has appeared in 67 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 599 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Janessa

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

56%

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