HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Josiyah

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. Josiyah, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	3,475
2025 number	33
Peak year	2017
Peak rank	2,225
Years present	24 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Josiyah was given to 33 boys in 2025, ranking 3,475th for the year. It peaked in 2017, when it ranked 2,225th and went to 60 babies. It has appeared in 24 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,072 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Josiyah

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

66%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. One voiced obstruent, one sibilant, ends on a consonant. 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.